Is there a page where we can comment on things going wrong with the forum? It is virtually unuseable at the moment. I get that the release has been brought forward, but it really is impossible to navigate at present

I think you need to email admin.  No idea why they don't migrate to a decent forum platform.  There are forums with huge numbers of users elsewhere which run with no issue

Does anybody ever try and go back just 1 page on a thread and end up going all the way  back to 1958?

Yeah , No matter what device I use ,It's all over the place .

Yes same here.

Also unless I can't see it theres nowhere to go to next unread message on a thread so I have to go to the last message and work backwards which as you say doesn't work.

Really poor upgrade, hopefully these issues are ironed out soon.

Where’s the “first unread post” button gone?

I appreciate the site is fan run on a low to no budget but it really has been a chore to use it the last few years and sadly can see people just not bothering

I know its a bit WIP... but its very frustrating when the "next page" button takes you a random page you may ot may not have looked at some point.

If I select "page 7" because I remember that was the last page I read, clicking "next page" should not take me to "page 3" because it wants to... ( and there is no way to knowe its page 3.....)

Its a real mess atm ... a real mess.....

also - meesages seem to displayed out of time sequence..... its completely unusable atm.

I like the lay out and look I get that bit but I've tried to write stuff on word and then cut and paste it into here like I used to, but that doesn't work and I can't seem to break posts up anymore by including gaps between paragraphs (Which with the amount of guff I spout at times does attempt to make it a bit reader friendly).