Hey all, sorry about this hassle but because of all the custom code that TWG's forum used it was nearly impossible to update the forum--which I did work on last night but after two hours of dealing with various errors I realized it probably wasn't worth continuing on.
I do want people to know that the passwords are salted and hashed so someone would actually have to spend time on it, but it's not something that would be impossible to do.
TWG was a great place for many people but all the reasons we kept it running no longer exist (reviews, keeping in touch with friends and author's forums) because of facebook and sites like the 17th shard.