Clackers, I just edited your topic title. I added a at the end

Thanks for posting this thread. I read it soon after it appeared and really appreciated it. I'm amazed you, and others, have had the patience to mine into the gold already here. How you have been able to find the buried treasures amazes me.

Personally, I'm annoyed and frustrated at the site's current status. MS mentioned above, "If you like it now, just wait until it gets all the bells and whistles plugged in. This site is under a massive face-lift. No more links, just information one or two clicks away. " That is totally true but...

I stuffed up - oops! I thought I had planned well (been way over-cautious, in fact) but results prove I haven't. To put it another way, I planned, and was willing to make a 1,000 mile journey to do the total re-make of the site. I even packed enough reserve fuel on board to do 3,000 miles to ensure we would get to the destination. End result at this point is 5000 miles of costs due to having to drive around unforeseen obstacles - things I could never imagine.

Just one example of these unforeseen obstacles is that Gmail/Microsoft etc automatically assume that emails from a site like this are spam. I have spent hours studying solutions to this, complying with their regulations etc, and I still don't get notified of responses here. Those hours I spent on that, and I'm talking over a hundred, could have been spent on writing the content sitting in my head, begging to be written.

That example is just one of many. Countless others I have solved at huge expense (time and/or money) but some basics like the above still remain. These "silly" problems (problems that should not even exist) have cost us badly. They have totally wiped me out and have left you all waiting for easy-to-find quality info.

Unfortunately, there won't be any sudden change in the appearance or structure of BIABrewer.info in the immediate future (all my focus is/has to be on finding work atm). On a more positive note, two things: I'm really pleased that Clackers and others are, despite the existing clumsy structure, still managing to find value here; and, I have, in no way, given up on my dream of making this the most useful craft home-brewing site there is.

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Pat