Why am I starting over?

I was ready to give up after the first few days, as were many people. But a bit of perseverance to  get adjusted has worked. Good luck, and don't give up. Just ask if you need help eith anything. The community is still here to keep us all together 🥰

At least they've noted that I've been a forum user for 16 years. 23 years if they counted the News forums!  I've joined for old times sake but doubt if it's much use to me now. I only looked for tips and answers for bugs anyway.

My early days were to get on top of bugs and tech problems before I encountered them too! 

Yep, I started as a newcomer to, even though I've been around for 12 years and I don't know if the badges are glitchy but according to them I haven't even logged in once. I'm getting the hang of things a little more, however it takes twice as long as the other forum with all the clicking and page loading. 

I went on the old forum today and signed in. And went on my profile and right clicked on my avatar pic and saved it to my PC.I did have to change it to JPG

I've not been a member that long but feel for any one that's been a member for a long time

I have the opposite issue. I've been around for about 11 years but was only active on the previous forum for 2-3 years, and had less than 600 posts. And I haven't been super-active here either. Yet somehow I've raced up the 'ranks' really quickly, and it doesn't seem right that I have a higher or even equivalent 'rank' to someone who'd posted thousands of times over many years. I don't like the ranks anyway. Seeing someone's number of posts gives a much better idea of how active they are, and removes the competitive side that has no place here.

Also this forum just makes stuff up! I recently got a badge for starting 25 discussions, when I've only ever started 5 or 6 on the previous forum, maybe one on AHQ, and I don't think I've started any here. Where did it get 25 from?!

Starting over hurts. I feel the same way. But it is what it is. I still would have preferred a forum without ranks, just new member and member on the old forum was perfect in my opinion. 

The hardest part of this forum however is not the hierarchy, it's the difficulty to read posts in long threads. I have been skipping the long threads I used to enjoy just because sorting them by newest and continuesly clicking load more is a pain. That's bothering me more than ranks. 

It's not that big a deal. We are all basically starting fresh with this new site. All things take a bit of time to get used to.  Just keep posting and adding likes and you'll find yourself practically a pro in no time!