I am puzzled by all this talk of clunkiness. When I first came here it was a ray of light to find clear words one below the other, without curious trees to find who had said what to whom. It still is.

I use a number of other fora, mostly about Volvos, and this is far easier to use - and I'm not a technophobe, I first wrote Atlas Autocode and KDF9 Algol in the 60s and I still build my own computers.

I don't see the point in flashing coloured text or emoticons. I don't see the point in pictures - and as said there is the Fakebook (real) Mudcat group for those who do want pix. And look how hard it is to find anything you want on, say, the Fakebook Group "1,000,000 united against the [you know which political party]".

It's perfectly easy to use the blickifier to link to anything.