I suppose it’ll settle down soon - welcome to the new forum …
You sure that isn’t age related. 
Where is my carefully prepared signature!
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Need some photos and gifs added
Yep, they’re coming.
This is all so different. How many of you had to reset your passwords?
Everyone.
I thought I was being thick. However Motorcycling being at the top on a motorbike forum, that’s crazy. Where has general chat gone? Can we have an adult section? Is it still a public forum or do you have to be a member to read the content?
You have to be a member. I was checking my go at iOS app and without login I can’t see any subforum.
its crap.
That’s the spirit. Well done 
this saddens me, i used to look for the display pics and stuff…ah well, the greater good!
S’funny . I visited 2 forums where I used to be a regular but drifted away about 9 months ago ( a Classic Car one and a VW Camper one).
Both are totally dead - tumbleweed blowing through 'em, last posts over a 2 months ago, Post a question , comment etc and you get nada, nowt.
Bit like beehives - one day they’re “buzzin” and you look a few weeks later and all you see are a few bee-corpses…
I know things-are-a-changing for forums, with so many people moving to FB (it has its place but cannot replace forums where people get to know each other and respect everyones opinion - on Facebook comments appear and disappear too quickly and it’s a haven for trolls (especially pissed ones)…
I just hope that at this tricky time FB improves and keeps the same buzz - otherwise this might be an excuse for people to walk
The site can be read by guests as well as members. Also we have a flat structure now, no sub forums so you’re not missing anything.
Chop rocker what don’t you like? Would you have liked it more if it was all in black? 
This is a motorcycling community first and foremost so it makes sense to have the motorcycling forum at the top. The Anything Else forum further down the list can be used for anything else off-topic
We rebuilt the site to make sure it was still relevant in these times. If we didn’t it could have become obsolete. There’s s lot of features still to come mind, but they’ll be added in asap one by one.
It’s certainly back to basics…
Does need more pretty pictures though, but I presume you have plans under way already.
Yeah, the lack of avatars confuses me somewhat - not in that I don’t understand why they’re not there, but because I use those more than names to recognise people. Absolutely love the lack of pointless shiny UI frippery, though, and not needing to work out how to turn signatures off
So why did we waste all that time on the testing site if it’s not ready now - and you still launched it? All the comments asking for PMs, photos, avatars, go to last post first (really annoying having to scroll right down each time), emoticons etc etc were all made on there.
Glad some folks can log on/register/change password on a phone - we couldn’t - as we told you before, on a Samsung 4 most of the screen is taken up by a huge facebook/google logo and the keyboard with a 1 mm slot to write in so you can’t see what you’re typing.
It seems you want everything to revolve round facebook. The so-called LB community spirit can only be damaged by this premature relaunch.
It looks like the contract for hosting the old site ran out before this was ready, and the decision was therefore between hoping a migration of that would be smooth and easy (which it probably wouldn’t, I suspect there’s a lot of fairly organic and undocumented ‘fixes’ knocking around, like using my mailserver for all outbound mail…) and shifting everyone on to this and hoping we’d all not mind enough to put us off coming back.
There’s definitely several issues that would prevent release in any normal circumstances (like the links in the emails being largely useless, and the inability to do anything to your account) but I’m not sure those are necessarily worse than whatever we’d have ended up with following a relatively rushed migration of the old site (it’s not as if that was particularly functional either), and they are at least predictable in that nothing that looks like it should work doesn’t.
Releasing software’s really tricky, and even more so when it’s free-as-in-free-beer to use and something you’ve made in your spare time. However much work you’ve put in in your own time, people will still be rightly irked when all that effort has gone into replacing one thing with something that’s objectively less good from a user’s perspective. And, oddly, expectations reduce when people are paying (or, at least, they’re more likely to wait-and-see). Perhaps (hopefully) we’ll get all these little fixes in short order and everyone will be happy I suspect the success of this will basically boil down to how many people are won over by the improvements in the next few releases, and if the community’s divided over what’s important perhaps we’ll end up with a smaller community after it all.
It definitely seems a strange time for such a change though, just as people are wheeling their bikes out of the garage and perhaps looking for people to ride with, but I think the original plan was to do it in the depths of winter.
Well thanks for explaining that - it does seem the wrong time of year to do it but if it was necessary to wheel it all out half done before the old one vanished in a puff of smoke, so be it (telling us that in the first place might have helped too)
Yeah, I think it’d have been nicer to have announced that the forum would be off for a few hours and migrated the latest of the content (and signed up users) over, too, rather than migrate yesterday with a vague “we’ll bring all the things you’re actually talking about over shortly”. I don’t expect any of those conversations to actually be carried on. Communication’s basically paramount when making large changes to software that people use, and there wasn’t really terribly much of that.
But I’ve seen/done several changes to forums, and it seems there’s basically no way to do them without annoying half the community and triggering a bunch of them to declare that it’s time to start a new forum elsewhere. The only possible way to placate the community is to change nothing and do nothing, and then they just slowly taper off and die anyway because nobody wants to join a clique. Running a forum is hugely harder than it looks, and nothing is quite as angrily fickle as an online community.