Apple is a user, just like us, when it comes to their contractor supplied forum software, which is typically from JIVE Software (Portland). JIVE tends to supply for Windows and open source, so when it comes to migrating anything, that's another checkbox on the option li$t. Witness the old forums now archived and locked. That option is carries the least overhead and co$t, after all.Migrating comments with intact threads from one format to another is rarely trivial/pretty, especially when the source is old and the new format is yet again proprietary. Migrating users is same only different.And since the old rep counter was broken...good riddance, I say. I've lost track of how many times I've seen counters restart for various Apple forums, so it's just another day online for me.The drivers for new forum software never included much value from old threads which primarily dealt with outdated code, tools, diluted/duplicate threads, etc. I suspect emphasis was placed on search, where users are nudged to do t