Presentation is all, and for all the alleged  ‘improvements’ (undetectable by me) the this forum remains unappealing and uninteresting.  For heavens sake, has none of the team responsible looked at other forums, as has been suggested many times, to see what makes them attractive and viable.  I’m left with the feeling ‘they’ have given up in the hope the few remaining users go away.

Sorry Bruce, it needs to be in the text section (tool bar) not on an attachment, most posts don’t have attachments.  For example my recent 0916 post simply shows text, no way of editing it to add ‘red’ to the sentence.

1.  Why keep signing in?  Just bookmark the website (https://www.key.aero/forum/historic-aviation).

2.  How does one know posts have disappeared, they aren’t numbered.

Re your 13 Nov 1344 post, Christer, my apologies.  Bad choice of word on my part (archived).  I was thinking of the number of times I ran searches on the old forum and stupidly equated that to an archive search.  In some ways it was as the forum had such a long history, but as recent events have sadly shown all the data has been lost by someone’s ill-considered decision.

Yes, Christer, because all the invaluable (previously easily accessed) archived information extending over many years would be lost for ever.

Doesn’t work for me I’m afraid Mothminor

Not sure if anyone has already mentioned this, but the new format does not include the cumulative number of views (as opposed to replies) a thread receives.

For example, back in March 2006 I started a thread on the 7 December 1977 Akrotiri U2 accident. https://www.key.aero/forum/historic-aviation/56680-akrotiri-u2-accident…

I eventually found the answer I was seeking, but curiosity occasionally leads me back to the thread to see if the number of views increases over time – it is simply an indication of ongoing interest in a historical subject.; this applies to any thread. Unfortunately this new version has dropped the facility.