I was greatly saddened by Kyn's new post, in the public part of the Forum, for all to read.
As we had been posting off-topic she may not have read those posts supporting her and also not realised that her silence had only fuelled our efforts to contact her.
Unfortunately silence does not communicate its reasons or intentions.
When we found that only Established Members could start a new topic, I went ferreting around the membership list and was surprised to find that we have two Administrators, Kyn and Kev. Kev had last logged in at Easter, so could have read some of our posts about how to continue the Forum.
However, I was intrigued to note that he had never, ever, posted on the Forum. I therefore tried to contact this Administrator with a view to them being able to unlock the Forum. I did this by the email button on Kev's profile, but because that took ages to clear I was suspicious that it had not gone, so I sent a PM to the same effect, as well. So it was I that started the hunt for Kev, sorry.
As I said, greatly saddened, as it is likely to mean the loss of a great resource, with irreplaceable contributions from the likes of Peter Challis.
Where shall we meet in the future?