Good morning everyone, and I am delighted to announce some changes that are happening or have happened over the past few days.

Firstly, a minor update sees the decommissioning of the "Problems & Suggestions" sub-forum which was previously placed under the "News & Site Updates" forum. The "Problems & Suggestions" section of the site has been resurrected and is now a forum alongside "News & Site Updates". These are both placed under the parent forum of "The Site" and are displayed towards the bottom of your forum homepage. The appropriate threads from the previously used sub-forum have been moved into the new forum - no posts were lost during this process.

Secondly, we recently announced that we updated North East Buses to re-introduce our "Flickr Links" section on the site's homepage (www.northeastbuses.co.uk). You can read more about that by clicking here. Further updates to allow North East Buses to be more socially friendly have been put in place, and have now been released to our community. The appropriate navigation bar link will be added later today. You can read about this update in detail on a separate thread here.

Finally, we recently asked the community for opinions on a proposed update we had in mind. After much debate on what would these updates would mean for both the community and site management, we have decided to go ahead with the proposed ideas - although some of the ideas may be slightly different from the original proposals, having listened to the community's opinions. At the earliest, the revised "Bus Operators" forum will be released to the community at the end of this week. Many hours of work has already gone into splitting, merging and moving threads and forum posts and we are approximately at 50% completion. You will notice that access to the earlier "parts" of the Go North East thread has been revoked. This has been done to minimise potential disruption to the normal viewing of these threads. Once we are almost at completion, the presently used threads for the three main bus operators within the North East (Arriva North East, Go North East and Stagecoach North East) will be split so that we leave only the most recent posts in that thread. Again, this is done to avoid downtime of the site to perform these updates, and is done for your convenience.


More updates are to come, so stick around and you'll find out what's in store! Cheers.