philhoward wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 6:59 am
If I read it another way, “Home” now means the homepage- “Board Index” is now the start of the forum.
Yep. The start of the forum has always been "Board Index" on the breadcrumb menus. A link to the homepage has now been added to those breadcrumb menus. The top menu has the same functionallity as the previous tabs but is fully generated within the forum software.
The reasons for these changes are manifold but the main one is that I am not going to be able to continue as webmaster for ever. The existing homepage and all the pages accessed by the homepage menu are all in a software package that I wrote myself because I couldn't find anything suitable at the time. This means that only I know how it works (and sometimes doesn't) and only I can maintain it. The present work is to remove all reliance on my bespoke code and move to platforms and systems that are supported by communities of web developers. Things have moved on a lot since the early days and it is now possible to use the forum software, phpBB, to power a complete website, not just this forum. The move to the new menu system is the first step in this direction.
And in answer to the Apostrophe Police

, I'm concenratiog on function, pretty stuff can come later. I wouldn't respray a car with a rotten chassis and a seized engine. Might even be someone else to pretty it up.
Hope that's given you a little more idea of what's going on.