The old-old MCN website was a fantastics site.

Except for it having the odd go-slow. In fact Sparky Slider only came about because you couldn't post pictures on MCN.

It all started going down hill after they changed it, MCN never really listened to what anybody wanted, and the site just got slower. On top of that each page seemed to be 50% adverts.

Once the threads started getting edited or deleted people just stopped bothering and found other places.

I'm looking at the MCN site now, and I can see that they have made some improvements, there doesn't appear to be so many adverts, and outside of the forums they seems to have done a good job.

Trouble is, it's the forums that get people going back day after day, and if that doesn't get fixed MCN will lose a lot of visitors. Like I said though, it'll only be short term, as new people with just assume that it's always been like that and accept it.