Hi all

Many of you will have seen that the Forum and the main FODFHT website has been blocked for a few days (since 22 October). This enabled ua to check with our hosting service that all the key software elements were up to date.

However this has been a spur to make the changes that have been in preparation for some considerable time. In particular we needed to retire the software used for the main site as it was out of date. The searches also need updating.

There proved to be an odd stubborn problem in the Forum that would have prevented regular users from posting. That has been solved and if you are seeing this (!) the Forum is active and can be used as normal. You will need to login to post.

The access to the searches on our data has been removed from the menu at the top of the Forum page. These will in future be available directly in the main site but are not yet reinstalled.

The main site has been live for a few days but is still in development I hope to reintroduce the searches shortly.

If you see any problems please reply to this thread.

Kind Regards

Paul