[MotherBear]

Looks pretty much like the current forum so not much excitement there. It's more cluttered up the top with the extra bit in there. Can't tell what it's really going to be like until it's populated with all our posts and looks 'more like home'.

Is all the work you've done going to be worth the effort? Don't want to sound ungrateful, but seems a lot to have done just to give us a better search facility and I have my reservations on that until I use it. I'd settled into the current facility after a few teething problems and enjoyed being able to choose different search times and also whether it was a single word or a phrase. It did let me down by not going back far enough, but whether that was the facility's fault or the fact that there was a problem after the changeover from the hacked forum to the current one, I don't know.

Are there any other benefits to this new forum that will make it more appealing? I'm sure I'll miss some of my favourite 'toys' on here that I use a lot on the bar over the top of the message box, but I'll just have to go with the flow (as long as we're going to have some decent smileys ;)).