Hi everyone,

Every few years I refresh the website look and functionality, starting with our forums, and occasionally try new things. Over the last six weeks I have updated the forum software to the latest version, made some improvements (https & server tweaks) and set up a new look theme which you see now. Most of our plugins remain or have been replaced with better versions. To summarise:

* Responsive layout for mobile and tablets should be much better, it is a different layout to the previous theme in terms of the mobile view but    much tidier.
* Profile images
* Bigger Avatars - new size for avatars is up to 100 pixels, + new avatars in gallery
* Default Monogram style avatars for those without
* Profile cover images for Heros (subscribers) - will be coming soon, the setting is disabled at the moment
* Added embedded media links from social and news networks, which you've probably already noticed (Reddit, etc)
* Likes, mentions and alerts remain
* Profile Setting to disable Ad Personalisation (in Look/Layout settings).

Please let me know if anything seems to be odd or not working. You may need to update settings in your Profile.
https://talk.uk-yankee.com/index.php?action=profile;area=theme

I have a few new features on the roadmap this year, such as Social Groups, and a companion chat/voice message server (subscribers only).
I'd like to set up a beta testing group to test new features, so if anyone would like to volunteer to help, please send me a PM. 

I know I've not been around the forums much the last few years. With work and family events I've been overwhelmingly busy. The work commute (and road works) of the last two years has sapped an additional 1.5 hours of my day. However, lots of changes this year (for the better) and my schedule will have more time for my projects, including, especially UKY. There's plenty to do, some tidying up, some overdue updates/improvements, some new volunteer moderator recruitment.

Thanks to everyone who lends a hand to keep our community an excellent resource for almost TWO DECADES, you guys are amazing! I will post a re-hi topic later to re-introduce myself again, I'm a more mature and hopefully wiser version of the long ago participant.

And now the pages are taking forever to load!

When I checked the site on my phone around 5am this morning, it wasn't loading. However, since I've been on it in the last hour or so, it seems to have been working fine, both on phone and laptop .

I'm getting right on now but the jerkiness is horrid, on laptop. I still had a tab open from last night and it's not doing it.

I did notice yesterday on mobile that there were certain posts that just disappeared and I couldn't see but I can see them all when logged into  desktop version. Not sure if maybe that had to do with the change or if it was just an issue with my account

Just browsed a few threads and all appears to be working okay!  

I still have jerkiness.  Does anyone else have the jerkiness? 

I still have jerkiness.  Does anyone else have the jerkiness? 

I've added a smooth scroll plugin to try to help with this.

This is a bit what the screen looks like if I click on an email link to a response....

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Thanks, I see now. It doesn't look like you're logged in at that point, is there a dialogue box at the top of the page? There would be for guests, but it looks like it needs to be set fixed so it can't be scrolled past.