So, this is the new forum, then. Welcome. Hope you find it to your liking.

OK then. I've tried to keep all the unnecessary bells and whistles to a minimum. It still has some annoying features I haven't worked out how to fix yet, like limiting the number of replies on one page, and some slightly irritating presentation options (and anyone filling their posts with these godawful smileys will be taken outside and shot), but this new place should at least make it a bit easier to find past posts, as well as not pushing them off the edge of the world when new ones come in. Unlike the old board, the default setting here is for a thread to jump to the top of the list whenever anyone posts in it. Don't worry about resurrecting old threads from months ago, it's positively encouraged.

All the old posts from the old board have been transplanted over here; since nobody had an account, all the old posts are just under the name "Anonymous", so your post count will have to start at 0 - though I've tried to indicate who posted what. Also, all of the dates and times of the old posts are messed up; where they contain context-sensitive date information, I've tried to provide it. Some of the threads which duplicated subject matter etc have been merged.

Anonymous posting is allowed, but if too many idiots/spambots take advantage of this policy it will be reconsidered... Anyway, do register for an account, it'll probably be ALL kinds of fun. (NB: May not be all kinds of fun.)

After much deliberation, I decided against making separate forums for different areas of discussion; I always liked the random jumble of topics on the old forum, and trying to separate everything out into neatly-organised little topic ghettos always seems like a recipe for disaster, because some discussions always attract all the traffic anyway whilst others end up sat there doing nothing except informing passers-by that "There are no new discussions on this topic since October 2003". Upshot is, there are no separate sub-fora for discussion of "Albums", "Songs", "The Band", "Off-Topic Bollocks" etc etc; you're likely to find all those things discussed here.

Any questions, give me a shout. Anyone who wants to be a moderator, e-mail me at webmaster@pulp.gb.com.

-- Edited by Steve Devereux at 03:40, 2007-03-21