Is it me ! Or because there's no stars

I like that, Snowy 😄😎

Just a bit of banter Tinwheeler, but as said; I do think its unfair for our senior members such as yourself. I hope the club will sort out the negative issues with our revamped site.

I have found that my internet was slow as was the load up of the cc site!

The thing about the update thing.....a lot of older equipment (I'm talking Apple here, because that's what I know most about) will update to the very latest software and so will get most of the features that the latest equipment has.

For example, an iPhone 5 is capable of running the latest iOS 10.

And to be honest, most people with an iPhone 4 will manage perfectly well with iOS 9 (and will avoid the problems that came with iOS 10).

Granted that there will be a few things that the latest iPhone 7 will do that yours will not......but do you really need those camera effects and the latest type of emojee to decorate your text messages?

The newer stuff will also have the latest retina display and a more up to date Bluetooth system.......but to be honest, for most things you will hardly notice

I liked it because it was banter, Snowy. Tbh, the stars are well rid of. Their only use was to give a clue if we were talking to a newbie.

I think to some extent the software companies use the updates to promote newer products. My first computer could do word processing and the total memory was 49Mb yes 49Mb. Each time there is an upgrade they never remove the redundant software that the new upgrade replaces. So we have to upgrade our hardware capacity partly just to accommodate bits of software we can no longer use.My latest phone has an overall capacity of 64Gb but only 48 is usable. The rest is dedicated to the operating system. Still cant show my avetar photo even though it is in my profile.

back in 1971 when i first started in my IT career, i was operating 2 large (physically) IBM system 360 machines...

at first, the computers could only cope with processing a bit of info, then printing a line of data, then processing, then print etc...with the whole process working at the speed of the slowest device...

then a wonderful thing called 'spooling' came into the world of computers....

the CPU could process data at its fastest speed, with the printer catching up later....

in order to run this system, we had to allocate an amount of storage to a seperate partition within the machine....

when powering up the machine on a Sunday night, ready for the weeks work, one of the first instructions was...

'alloc f1=32k'

f1 (foreground 1) was the partition assigned for spooling the whole companies printed output, 32kb (not mb or gb) was the total size of this whole area within the machine....

my, how things have changed.....

On my older galaxy phone I was not be able to download the CC App, I needed 4.0.3. and up on Android. Now, with a newer phone I can download the app and others if I want to and reading the CC website has improved greatly.

My brother worked in computers.......he travelled all over the world installing mainframes in his company's various offices.

But when we showed him a pc he was amazed at what it could do.

(this was a good few years ago)

Well I can only say thanks for all your replys , it does appear to have been quite on here by the loss of a few star gazers  but most are due to the new web site / forum , 

I am certainaly not up to a lot of what your all discussing it appears to be double Dutch to me ( is that p c  ) anyway after a few weeks I must agree all the clicking and waiting seems so slow ! I was able to browse site before and if there was anything interesting or wanted to reply to then I would sign in but now,  I can't even jump to last post without signing in and have to start all over again , on the technical side you lot leave me boggled but on the easy to use I find it a big pain now  but alas I'm on an iPad which appears to be taboo with CC , still can't load pictures I thought the improvements would have allowed this 🤔 anyway read all your replys some more than once and have to agree it's certainaly wasen't Xmas ect why so many have cut down on posting or stopped all together ☹️