With all the things currently wrong with kaw was this new update with forums necessary? Again kaw putting a plaster on a broken leg!
Seeing as how kaw was originally written in flash, and forums where here in the begining, and flash is going away it's highly possible that they didn't have a choice with out breaking kaw entirely. It's most likely not a coincidence that a day after announcing PC shout down due to flash that dev would completely rework forums.