Google Product Forums, which is built upon Google Groups, will enable us to offer you a better forum experience so that you can easily ask questions, get the answers you need, and exchange ideas.

The most important features of our current forum, like levels and marking a Best Answer, will continue to be available in the new forum. 

Google Product Forums also includes some new features that users have told us they'd like, such as the chance to add a "Me too!" vote to a question to quickly share that you're interested in the question as well. You'll also be able to +1 your favorite topics. And we hope you'll enjoy the modern look and feel of the new forum, too.

You can see an example of Google Product Forums on the Google+ Discuss forum at https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!forum/google-plus-discuss. We've also introduced some of the basic features in our Getting Started Guide at http://support.google.com/groups/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1649687&rd=1. 

Our move is scheduled to happen on Wednesday, 12/21/11. Once the new forum is live, you'll find it at https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!forum/checkout-merchant.