Hi everyone,

I'm really sorry for the problems that we've had this afternoon.

As you can all see, we've restored the forums and all the information on everyone's profiles so that you can use the forums again. This means that all your PMs, photos, signatures and sign ins are all safe and should be working again as usual.

I'd also like to reassure you all that your total post countings have not been lost. You will see them alongside any new postings that you make.

However, any old postings made before the error occured will now have unregistered next to them.

The problems were caused by a database hiccup during an admin update, which has resulted in your member numbers disassociating themselves with the postings that you have made.

I'm afraid that there's no quick fix solution to this although we'll continue to look into it. However, in time, as new postings are made, your postings with "Unregistered" alongside them should gradually decrease.

Once again - I'm really sorry for this error and for any panic or inconvenience that has been caused.

Thanks to YAP for posting a message on the Alternative Forums to let eveyone know what was going on.

Kind regards

Christine