Welcome to the third edition of the Hard Light Productions website! It is the product of the entire community’s collaboration, months of preparation, and many hours of staff work. We’ve put in a lot of effort to bring you a whole array of new features – let’s take a minute to explain some of them to you.
Firstly, the new
domain:
www.hard-light.net! This domain belongs to us and we have moved the entire site over from GameSpy: home page, forums, Wiki, and even an archived copy of the old vBulletin. (You can see links to these in the box above: they’re all part of the “HLP Network”.) Please update your bookmarks!
Secondly, the new
forums: as you can see, we’ve imported every single post and thread over here. Your old logins and passwords should all be intact too. If you find that they’re not, email any of the admins and we’ll sort things out with you.
Thirdly, the new
BitTorrent Tracker: this is how we will be handling all of HLP’s downloads from now on. If you have questions about how the BitTorrent system works, that leads me to...
Fourthly, the new staff! We’re pleased to have Mr. Fury aboard as our newest full-time staff member. He’s been a pillar of the community and we’re glad to make him part of the team. Congratulations to him! His speciality will be the BitTorrent Tracker, so
consult him if you have any questions about BitTorrents, making them work, what they need to be used for, or other BT-related stuff.
Fifthly, the new webring: you can see it up above there. It's pretty self-explanatory - have a go at accessing other sites through it! We're happy to be encouraging community integration and communication by publicising the hangouts of other FreeSpace fans - if you'd like to be a part of the webring and have the bar on your side too, just contact the staff and we'll arrange it.
There’s more to see, but that’s a whole bunch of the changes right there. Other ones, we’re going to let you discover them for yourselves. If you have any questions, please refer to the newly published
Frequently Asked Questions specifically dealing with our new home. If you have any further questions that aren’t answered in the FAQ, feel free to ask us here and we’ll add them to the FAQ.
That’s enough from us. We’re really excited about getting settled into our new home – we hope you enjoy it too and get heaps out of it. Again, welcome to HLP!
Regards,
Since lots of people are asking (with some silly excuse about the FAQ not being accessible... sheesh! 
), to get the quick-reply box to show, change the setting in your forum profile. // SandwichAlso, a note to all project leaders: before shutting down the old forums, we requested that all project leaders would submit a list of members who should have access to their respective project internal forums. Unfortunately, this went largely unnoticed by majority of the project leaders. Those hosted projects now only have their forum moderators granted access to their respective internal forums.
Project leaders: please post a list of members who should have access to your project's internal forums to the Hosted Sites Support Forum.
