Looks like you've managed to change your avatar now
I really don't have much control over the forum -not just you lot, but the actual programme. It runs as a stand alone feature, linked to the main site, which is why the servers keep breaking the connection to it every time they do maintenance work. I plan to revamp the main site before the end of the year & get it properly running again, but the forum will probably stay more or less the same, (maybe a colour change), as changing to a new programme would involve everyone joining again & starting from scratch. It's 12 years old & on out of date software, but it works -most of the time -so I'll leave it well alone.