The forums are temporarily disabled while some essential maintenance being conducted.

[JK0]

Hmm. I've been missing Landlordzone, but I hope the present form is not the final one. I can't seem to call up the latest post on a subject, but have to scroll through from the start. Anyone else managed it?

[sam_cat]

Nope, lots of functionality seems to be broken, and I am sure a fair bit of content is missing.

[jpkeates]

Update now seems to mean "The user interface has been changed in a minor but confusing way with some useful functionalty removed"

[MdeB]

I hope the present form is not the final one. I can't seem to call up the latest post on a subject,

Me too.
But we need at least 10 characters.

[sam_cat]

Looks vile on Firefox, decent size screen/good res and every other site is fine
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[Mrs Mug]

Looks the exactly same on my computer using Firefox, Internet Explorer or Microsoft Edge.

[jpkeates]

Not being able to get to the last unread post makes it close to unusable.

[Berlingogirl]

It seems ok to me.

[nukecad]

I'm guessing that the underlying software has been reloaded or updated, and has reverted to default settings.

It can take a while for admin to put all the custom settings, 'tweaks', and add-ons back when that happens - if they can remember them all or have kept a list.

Usually you get the forum up again as a priority and then sort that customising stuff out.

[MdeB]

Usually you get the forum up again as a priority and then sort that customising stuff out.

Usually one tests it in a sandbox before deploying it live and documents the process required to deploy it live (TSB excepted, apparently: they still have not got everything working after more than a year).

[nukecad]

Well we still don't know just what happened.

As there was no warning that maintenance was going to take place, and as it went on for a couple of days, then I'm guessing that it wasn't something planned for and so couldn't be pre-tested for.

If it was something like a catastrophic server breakdown then the priority would be to get a new server up and running, get the forum back on line, and then sort out the settings.

I'm sure that most would rather see the forum with missing functionallity for a while rather than no forum and just an error message.

[KTC]

Look different to me on multiple computers and browsers.

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I mean, what's with that giant padding, with everything else squished into tiny little space? And yes, nothing immediately obviously clickable to take me to newest post.

[Kape65]

I kept getting a "virus" on the home page which re-directed me if I tried clicking on anything, I guess that was the essential maintenance.

[theartfullodger]

Well best wishes to Tom & his team for getting the operation back up. The thing about computers, it's not IF it goes wrong but WHEN.

I expect a few techies sweated blood for days to get this sorted (no idea what went wrong..).

[jpkeates]

I'm sure that most would rather see the forum with missing functionallity for a while rather than no forum and just an error message.

Nope.
There's not much difference between a web site that's not there and one that you can't use.

And the complete lack of any explanation or update makes things worse.