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It’s true that the new format has shortcomings. I think of some of the conversations we used to have that wouldn’t be possible now. In the old format you could quote a person’s entire post and then respond point by point (if you knew how to use quote tags), at the same time editting out excess verbiage. The way it is now, quote tags don’t seem to work, so you’d have to create a separate post for each separate point you wanted to discuss. The kindest thing you can say about that is that it’s awkward.

And when you first arrive on the forum you’re greeted with that full screen warning to reactivate your old account or log in. And you don’t realize right away that you can just scroll past that. It’s frankly intimidating. There are times when I just want to browse the topics first before I decide whether to log in or not. If I were a new visitor, I might well turn around and leave at that point.

Even so, I hope that in time we’ll get used to these changes in format and learn to work around them.