I am finding it annoying and there simply isn’t the rewarding ‘user experience’ there used to be. Now that people are not bothering to come here, including people who’s input was always interesting and often valuable, I expect I won’t be coming back myself any time soon.

Please pass this on to Key Publishing if you are in  position to do so:

You can instantly regain your credibility and goodwill by announcing the death of the forums, admitting your mistake, and offering the entire content on an archiving website with a decent index/search in perpetuity so that the accumulated knowledge is not lost.

Thanks for everything over the years, this forum has taken me from newbie with a passion to someone who gets paid to write about historic aviation (just not by Key – your loss 😉 ).