Hi everyone, finally, WIX have done the migration from the Old Forum to the New Forum. Only took 8 days for an action that warned "this may take a few minutes..." ffs, but anyway here we are.

1. The New Forum will be called that for a couple of weeks. The existing Forum will remain, but only as a backup should the New Forum have another bug that needs fixing. Then the old Forum will be removed and the New Forum renamed 'Forum'.

2. Although the New Forum will be up today, and posting and commenting live, there is a lot of work on the format to be done (which I hope to finish by Monday) so you may find yourselves a little confused by the layout for a day or two.

3. At this moment, we can't have Rooms within Rooms as we do with the old Forum, meaning there are currently 32 main Rooms (hence the work needed for easier navigation). We do hope WIX will remedy this soon.

4. Your existing membership should be automatically transferred over later this weekend. I say should because it's another WIX tool and let's be honest, they are pretty crap at testing.

5. Once you are in a Room, thankfully, posting, commenting and reacting to posts is pretty much the same as in the Old Forum.

Apologies for this upheaval, it was NOT our doing, we were not consulted and didn't even have a warning it was happening. The layout options of the new Forum are basic compared to the old Forum but we're told, features will be added.

From what I can see, the only real benefit of the new Forum is that it is integrated into the main Editor and is not an add-on applet like the old Forum was. In other words, when WIX make changes to the site editor, the formatting of the New Forum shouldn't damage the Forum as before. We will see.

Please note, the Members Migration button has partially worked, so at the moment you'll probably only be able to post in some ROOMS and view it and look around others. I have sent ANOTHER rocket to WIX... what a joke. In the meantime, you can of course 'Join' other Rooms by clicking on the Join button. I am waiting to hear back from WIX about using the 'Invite Members' button I have on the ROOMS. It links back to all the old Forum members, but as it stands, would mean all of you would get 15 to 20 separate invites rather than just 1 global invite. I shall keep you updated.