Hi, I'm Kevin (Zootella), an employee of Lime Wire LLC in New York. I see you've found our forums. I'll answer the questions people have brought up. But first, please realize 2 things:
(1) The forums aren't officially up yet. That's why there's like 2 postings in them.
(2) The forums aren't for LimeWire users. The top section, for Users, links back here to the Gnutella forums. We're starting small, and don't want to duplicate effort.

Yes, it will be the "official" LimeWire forum, in that it will be the forum on limewire.org.

Thanks. A big part of my role at LimeWire is to improve our relationship with the community that grew around the software app.

Sometimes, yeah. Hopefully the forums will gain a community that can help too, though. The LimeWire staff is very small compared with a message board.

The thinking is this: there's a huge loyal community of people around LimeWire software, and we want to engage them more fully. Up to now, limewire hasn't done community on our Web sites. That's going to change.

This is exactly why we've designed our forums to link to The Gnutella Forums for users. The amount of information and help here is huge. We can't duplicate that right away, and aren't even trying.

On the other hand, some narrower communities that have sprung up around LimeWire don't yet have a place online to meet. For instance: LimeWire developers don't have a forum of their own. There's Gnutella development here, and the GDF, but they're not specific to LimeWire. Try to post a LimeWire-specific development question there, and you'll be reminded what's on topic.

So, with the LimeWire Forums, we're starting to engage our community and fill in the missing pieces. I'm signed up for a lot of forums online, and have never felt loyalty to one over another - that's not what any of this is about. I hope the people who made the Gnutella Forums great will sign up for the LimeWire forum and help LimeWire get started.