Thanks to ever-watchful eye of Krilnon, a potential security issue was stopped. The forums have also been upgraded to the latest version of vBulletin, and there is a new feature called Activity Stream: http://www.kirupa.com/forum/activity.php
The default option is for the forums home page page to actually be the Activity Stream. I have it set to show our list of forums like always, but if the activity stream seems to be a better forums home page, it may be worth switching to it in the future 
