Mark,
A bit cheap to accuse posters of not paying for the upkeep of pprune.
Danny made no bones about the fact that he sold the site to a commercial enterprise and it's not up to the contributers, no matter what the owners may think of them, to pay for the upkeep of the site.
It may have started as a good idea with the best of intentions, but Pprune is now a respected part of the aviation community with many valid and positive contributions made everyday - you may not have noticed, but that's why advertising has very obviously significantly increased on these pages on a daily basis.
Just as circualtion figures make money for newspapers, the number of people logging on here each day, attracts advertisers and ergo, money for the owners.
The service form the Pprune servers has been utterly crap recently, that's entirly down to the owners and operators of this site and, if advertisers walk away that's not our problem.