Terribly sorry for this confusion but...

[lucky045]

ppppo... Ok, so it appears the AB forum has been down for a while now... umm and I stumbled across this here... so is this the new forum or something, or just one to use while ABRSM gets itself back up? Or something else entirely that I should stay away from?

Why are the posts not in order of the most recently added to? Can I change that, or not? At the moment mine go "last post 2006, last post 2007, last post 2006, last post 2008" etc, seemingly randomly.

Also... does anyone know what's going on with the old ones?

[anacrusis]

This forum was very kindly set up by YAP and AP in response to the ABRSM site going down monotonously regularly, and also because a number of members had left there but still wanted to talk music. It's been very lively in the past, is rather quiet now, but is still somewhere for people to go who have issues with the official forum, and for official forum members to go if the ABRSM one goes down .
It has been a long time now, hasn't it? I haven't been able to get onto the ABRSM one for about four days.

[lucky045]

Ah ok, well that was a really good idea then! And the other point in my first post about the threads not being in order was my own idiocy in not checking which ones were pinned.

Thanks! Well as a relative newbie to the AB ones I've never seen it go down for this long...

Ooh the sunglasses smile is still here!

*Edit* hmm, since you helped me, does that mean that I click on the "exalt" to thank you? I shall have a go... Hopefully that's not doing anything wrong...

[anacrusis]

The exalting's been a bit of fun, really - and occasionally a bit of vengeful nonsense too . In general, people have tended it to use it to express their annoyance or pleasure at posts they have read, though in my case I'm lucky enough to have a couple of good friends who look in here regularly (and I can't keep up with them to reciprocate, either ;D).
Meantime, welcome, and if there are any topics, musical or otherwise, which could do with airing, go ahead .