What has happened

Let me point out that in my previous post I said issues are 'being' dealt with. That is not the same as having 'been' dealt with. We are told items are 'being' dealt with which implies work is in hand. Who are we to dispute that?

Other easier to use forums are out there but CT isn't unusable. A pain in many ways, yes, but unusable, no.

As I said, a pain in many ways and this duplication demonstrates one of them.

Yes it's a pain at times, I agree it is bearable and quite useable. I am quite happy to accept its downsides on this forum and let IT sort out the important part, and that is its sites network, bookings and CL network.

Forum updates can come whenever, it's only a front for excessive moaning and faceless people anyway

I have no problems using my PC but there is no "Compose a Reply" box on my Samsung tablet.

Amazing that soem people actually think the website is okay.  Beggars belief.  There are so many flaws it si no longer a joke considering that we the members are paying the IT team to fob us off with this very poorly designed website.  The previous one had flaws but we could work around them, but not this one.  When last has any one been sent a notification email?

I don't think anyone has said it's OK as in giving it an unqualified thumbs up, Surfer, but it is usable.

As for notifications, it's not exactly a vital feature. 

Surfer, it seems to me that the folk who are complaining most about the new forum are pretty much the same ones who complained (a) about the old forum and (b) about the length of time it took to replace it. Are email notifications so vital? I don't post on enough threads to have needed reminders!

As for paying for the forum, I've read that several times recently but can't understand that. We were members long before CT came into being and I can't imagine the increase in subscription fees being down to its introduction.

Anyway, imperfect as it is, here are some improvements on the new forum (a) one can post photos easily (b) there's a spell checker that works (c) actual times are attached to posts so you can get some idea of how often members spend time on he forum (d) when you quote a post you can immediately see who you're responding to and you no longer get those ridiculously long pages of nested quotes which were a regular feature of the old CT.

So, not all bad news then, at least IMHO! Smiley smiley.

Well, I for one think "unworkable" description fits - but the basic problem was inherited from the previous version.

There is no need to list every instance of someone "liking" a post in a thread, or every instance of someone adding a post.  A simple, single line listing of threads that have had a new post added since I last viisted the site will suffice. Oddly, this is how virtualy all forums in the non-caravanning world work, and they are able to get considerable more than six threads onto a page.

I'm sure some of you will want to add a helpful comment but I'm unlikely to ever find this thread again. That is what it is "unworkable" for me.

Nav, you & I have different interpretations of 'unworkable' I think it works just fine for my needs. It may have 'issues', unworkable it ain't.

For anyone who may be interested & hasn’t already seen it Rochelle posted some info about CL’s on Snagging list 18th Jan.