> It's simpler, which means there is less chance of things going wrong. The downside is the lack of certain types of features. For example, you can't configure settings or preferences that the system remembers when you log in another day -- imagine if the message forum automatically remembered your name and email and filled them in for you.

Maybe it's just me, but I'm almost certain that before the forum redevlopment, the forum used to do exactly that, even without a login. I found myself really missing that in the new version. I'd guess it was probably done using cookies.

- Ciaran.