Tim,
You said once before you weren't coming back and changed your mind. I hope this time you will change your mind too. Like Caryl said: "If you leave I'll miss you, and I hope you don't. Yes, you can be a tough cursing old whotsit when you choose, but I enjoy your sense of fun"
Ok. You don't like the new layout. You've made that very clear. Well, the layout is not likely to change, and R. said "live with it" and you said you would. If you're really annoyed by it, you can always make a "snelkoppeling" (don't know the English word) straigt to the forum.
I think it IS user-friendly and by that I mean the same thing Michel does. I find it very easy to navigate.
About the forum: if there's one thing I hate, it's censorship. A forum where you have to check each post 10 times before posting, is no fun. And yes, there have been fights, and some people say things rude or blunt if they're angry, you've done that too and hey, we're all human, right?
But I do feel there's respect for eachother in this group.
The buddy system discriminating and racist? Sorry, that's bull. I wouldn't use the ignore option unless I was really, really offended by someone and I can't see that happening in the future. But if it did: then it would be a good option, I could still feel at home here and not see any posts by that person.
Feeling at home... correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that part of the problem for you, Tim? You have been an member for a long time and felt right at home. And you saw the group change, more and more people joined. And now on top of that the layout changed as well. I can understand that. I know what that's like, that a group you really enjoy very much changes and you feel less at home. (I don't mean mlukfc, was an egroup) But nothing can be done about that, it's nobody's fault and can't be fixed. I could be way off base here, but think about it please.
Anyway, I hope you'll reconsider
Guppie