User blog comment:BertH/New Forums now available in Labs/@comment-24628700-20121206122549/@comment-1398253-20121212220227

And that is why The Morphin Grid just voted no to the new forum system, by three votes to one. There's five admins, but the last one's opinion is moot because of majority consensus. Which is, lose the discussions footer, and we'll install the new forum. As long as that circumvention CSS is banned, we won't be using this new feature.