Susan, I agree in that it is too early - it is an experiment - we have to wait and see what happens.

Re Mudcat changes, you may be better informed than me but I'm not aware of anything forum wise that is likely to try what I am trying (I wouldn't have bothered if I was). As far as I'm aware, the chat room is a real time chat room, I think a text based program written in Java which would provide a different and again perhaps valuable addition.

I simply don't understand your last paragraph but on a technical level, both Mudcat and my site do use cookies and both may be of concern to users. If my site proves useful I will make some changes as I'm not happy with the current solution but allowing for that, there are and probably always will be differences between Mudcat's and my site's application that may make the topic worthy of discussion as separate issues on both sites.

Jon