Please bear with me on this. There is no big room full of programmers hacking away, just me. I have moved to this software as the previous software was only designed to handle boards up to 20,000 users and we had more than doubled that already.
This new software operates in a completely different way and is database based which means that it should be able to handle almost unlimited threads and posts. The main limiting factor now is the server. I expect that if we get more than 300 people browsing the forums simultaneously then we will see some degradation in performance but the server upgrade is expected to take place in the next week or so which should hopefully double our capacity for the time being.
As for everyone asking all the questions... have you bothered to click on the
faq (Frequently Asked Questions) link? It is not rocket science and unfortunately I cannot answer all the questions for everyone personally. So, if you have emailed with a question you may not receive ananswer, especially if it is in the faq's.
There will be no access to private forums for a while until I manage to figure out the best way to allow it. It is being worked on. Although this may appear similar to the old forums don't forget that it is completely different underneath all the cosmetic bits and so there have to be some compromises but hopefully all the added features such as being able to see threads in any order you prefer will compensate for this.
Please be patient while I get this tweaked. I have the added complexity of trying to study for a B737 conversion course at the same time and guess which has priority?