Not to hijack the thread but do you remember where that was cited (*) mean the general topic.

Can't seem to find it myself unless it was in a github discussion thread or I skimmed over it on the forum but it does raise the question that it implies all accounts could be transferred over at that time with the activity and posts included but that would make sense, I may just open a new thread in the new forum discussion and get the question answered directly but wouldn't want to repeat it if its already posted somewhere so may as well ask here first.

As a confirmation, we're working really hard to make sure as much of the data is carried over. The only thing we can't carry over is passwords, so when you first log on to the new forum, you'll need to set a new password.

This will probably be done over email so make sure the email you have registered with THIS forum is your email and not ... say a burner email account like mailinator or something like that.

Mostly because we won't have access to it.

To prevent people from thinking, "This is a phishing site trying to steal my password!", the primary method of resetting your password will be email reset. A secondary (maybe slightly-hidden) method will be to use your current password. So you needn't worry about having an invalid email address now.

A valid email address might be required in the new software, though. I'm not sure about that yet.