I remember way back there was some plan to build a new forum, obviously that never happened.
Is it still interesting to the owners of bitcointalk.org?
For your citation(reference), the Beta version of the forum is under development ->
https://beta.bitcointalk.org . Expect it to be released soon (in a couple of months)
Is this a public beta? In other words, can we join this beta forum???
And, will the posts made in the beta version be erased?