First of all: the new forum looks like a big improvement over askbot while maintaining the same functionality (just set the Default Homepage to “Latest”).
While browsing the forum, I noticed some third-party requests which do not seem to be necessary. The one I could reproduce is the forum trying to load a favicon from https://searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com/favicon.ico.
I also saw some connections to discourse.org, but couldn’t pinpoint it further. Maybe, someone else noticed it to. In this case, please feel free to add to this thread.
And one last thing: During the sign up process, you have to agree to the Jolla Privacy Policy. But this forum seems to be hosted by discoursehosting.net which runs on DigitalOcean, which is nowhere mentioned, neither here on the forum nor on the privacy policy. While I know how much effort it takes to maintain such a server, I’d somehow expect from a privacy-aware company like Jolla to host the forum themself. At least, that is what the Jolla Privacy Policy, which at no point mentions the disclosure of all information entered here towards the hosting companies of the forum, suggests. At least make the users aware of where their data is stored to give them a choice (which is the purpose of the GDPR btw).