The difficulty we are wrestling with in GA in general and gliding in particular is how to get what is relevant from the NOTAM service and leave out what is not relevant. For gliding, we need Nav.-type notams for our geographic area (how far that is depends on the weather) and not the aerodrome stuff, because we don't normally go to Heathrow, Bournmouth or similar aerodromes.
Once, we used to get NOTAMs posted to gliding clubs, but that stopped. The web is the only way now.
We used to be able to data from A8 NOTAM lists (I think it was) and ignoring A1 data. Now we can't avoid getting 30+ pages of stuff when we only want about 1 page of it.
To get anything, I have to pretend I am going to fly from Cambridge to Great Yarmouth, staggering about 50 miles off-route, when I really want to fly from Ridgewell (which is not addressable by the NOTAM service).
I appreciate that other people do need the other stuff. So what we need is some way of selecting what is appropriate.
Fortunately, MrCross and another have taken on the mantle of trying to organise that for us.
Would have been nice if AIS had taken the trouble to find out what is needed, but they didn't, so MrCross is doing it for them - for which AIS, and I and a lot of others, are very grateful.
When the service goes down, it would be nice if AIS let everyone know plus what to do instead. They didn't - but last weekend apparently they asked MrCross to do it for them.
As his efforts are at his own expense, when he asks this forum for help in understanding what the issues are, it would be nice to see people giving constructive comments instead of flames.