Hi,

Over the last few days - and in the days to come - you may notice some changes around here.

The most noticeably is that we've pruned over 5000 dead accounts. Everyone with an account over six months old and 0 posts have been deleted, along with people who haven't logged in since June 2006. We're also completely pruning old/dead/useless threads, so you'll see a change in your post ranks, threads and - hopefully - loading speed.

We've been forced to do this to help optimise the database; we're at risk of being thrown off our server (again) and I simply can't afford to switch to a dedicated one.

Apologies to anyone who's lost an account - please, if you still visit - even if you don't say much - do sign up again. Sorry for the inconvenience!

No, this is nothing to do with April 1st - that's just unfortunate timing.