Since Phaser first began, I maintained a board over at the HTML5 Game Devs Forum. This has been great for many years but I felt it was time to move to our own home. I had looked at Discourse before. As a forum app, it seemed light-years ahead of what Invision, the software at HTML5GD, could do. Sadly, it was just too expensive for me to consider. So all those power features seemed out of reach.

Which is why, when Discourse offered Phaser a free managed installation, as part of their initiative to help open source projects, I jumped at the chance! :)

I had the option to move over all of the old posts from the HTML5GD forum. Which would have provided a rich vein of archived material to draw on. However, it was impossible to determine which users had registered on HTML5GD just for Phaser, rather than one of the other projects hosted there, like Babylon.js. I also felt that, as a user, I wouldn’t be happy to find that my user account was moved from one site to another without my permission. With those two facts in mind, I took the decision to start the new forum afresh.

Which means it's a bit of a blank slate right now. But that should change over time! As a Phaser backer, please register on there soon to secure your usernames :) It should also recognise the fact you're a Patron and give you a special badge as a result.

Hope to chat to you all on the new forum soon!