Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.
What "bad" could newegg possibly "do to" hardforum?
I guess it is just a business decision. Somehow it is more profitable for hardforum to link to amazon.com than to newegg.com, based on whatever kickbacks they can get.
This thread isn't about SSD's and Data Storage so I'm closing it. In response though, my understanding is that they were constantly going back and forth on whether or not they even wanted to advertise here, then during a time when Hardforum had a referral program setup with them (commission on purchases that were clicked through from here) they decided to discontinue that right before Black Friday a few years back.
I don't have any first hand knowledge, that's just my understanding.
P.S. If you know enough to write [off-topic] in front of a thread, you should know enough to not post it in the first place.