Cervantes3773 wrote:Unfortunately, they're not - word on the street is that CB is providing some form of financial assistance to run it/take the place of the official forums.
You can have both. I ran TGN for several years with the hosting being paid by one of the companies that sent product news. As long as both sides are willing to keep the site independent then it isn't an issue.
I have no idea what the behind-the-scenes issues were but if CB didn't want to have to spend time and energy running their own forum then I can't see that they'd want to stick their fingers into Data Sphere.