I’m hoping to see it on the Nov 18th Open Day! Along with the P-39.

And they plan to display several/many aircraft at Wings Over Wairarapa (Masterton) in February.
ANother recent project of Sir Peter’s
https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/107224842/sir-peter-jacksons-world-war-i-footage-restoration-almost-too-good

Bruce replied
Its being worked on – there are multiple issues at present. It did briefly get faster on Friday, but now appears to be slower than ever.

The team at Key are working on it – I don’t think they expected the issues that we are seeing.

They are? The appalling communication is part of the issue. No warning. Obvious performance issues not followed up with even a ‘Report issues here’ thread (doing this pre-emptively would have given a much better sense that things were being managed). No apology. No stated plan, or progress reports.
Which leaves users feeling abandoned, and much more likely to decide not to bother.
There could be several people working hard on fixing things. Or one person only allowed to work on it when other duties permit.
All of which is rough on those working on things, and mods who are tainted by association when they have no power to do anything about it.

Anon started a topic “New” Forum issues.
14th September 2018, 06:08
It’s probably me being dilatory but, if something doesn’t appear to work easily I usually blame myself, but resent the designers of such devices and consider them to be “fixing somethin’ that aint broken”.

For instance; I have just posted on the “Holiday Snaps From Narsarssuak” thread, which then states, on the main index page, that there are no replies to it. Including my own, there are five.

Also, having a look at Blue_2’s latest tribulations with his beloved Meteor I found that I either have to click the forward button on the pages 64 times to get to page 64, or I highlight the page number, put in the page number I want then press return. It was easier before and quite straightforward. Why change it?

I’m fairly sure that the old design was broken, just not in ways that were obvious to the user – apart from when it crashed for days at a time, remember that? And if security was outdated, things like user passwords could be recoverable – again not obvious to users.

Re page numbers, you can also scroll to the bottom of the page, and select the page number button you want. Every other forum design I can remember seeing in recent years has specific buttons for the first page and last page, generally at both top and bottom of the displayed page (rather than different interfaces at the top and bottom of the page). Also when I go select last post or first new post from the entry for Duxford Diary on the Topics page, it only admits to the existence of 13 pages (up to June). I have to use other options to actually see recent posts in that thread.