Hi Tom. You are not kidding, it's a lot different to what we had before. Unfortunately, this bulletin board software was the best of a fairly restricted bunch, and its prime virture (apart from being free!) was that it had a lot more configurable options than we needed, so it should be possible to reduce the clutter and simplify the thing. I am hoping to gradually massage it down to a more manageable shape in the next weeks, but was keen to get the "bare bones" working as I know a lot of people use the Log, and would miss it.
You (and indeed all users) could help me by suggesting/requesting/demanding changes: I may not be able to make all of them, but I will know what is liked and what is disliked, and can push things in the right direction (and the first thing is to get the distorted house-flag at the top sorted...you would think a simple thing like that would be easy, but its hidden on the innards of the program

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Cheers
Jim Blake