Yes and no it was done more for security purposes and it was in discussion for well over 6 years. Needless to say I'm fine tuning everything and we have a website issue tracker and a request section. I'm working with the community for the community, now that the move is completed and finalized, in reality it boils down to the owners decision and he wanted to protect the forums and have full security range to protect you the end users which now he does.
I'm now working side by side with @DennisMidjordand other members to fine tune and constantly give the forums a better experience the start was rough. There is no need to continue with the banter about it some people are upset at the change and some people enjoyed the fresh update. We cannot please 100% of the entire community at the end of the day we are all here to benefit and move into the future as it's now 2020. The old Forums was very out dated and had 0 security to prevent spam bots and etc...
Topic is now locked as banter is no longer needed. "I will work with the community just make requests what you want to see"