RW Forum Change, Part Deax

I know, I know. It's been less than twenty-four hours since RunnersWorld introduced the new forums, so there is still a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth going on. As I type this, RWOL admins are working hard to fix various bugs and restore/improve features, but here's what I know so far:

• Only Original Posts (OPs) were migrated from the previous system; no replies to them were migrated. This means that NONE of the 2008in2008 individual posts were saved.
• No Personal Messages (PMs) were saved and you cannot send a private, personal message to any user or collections of users. Now, you CAN send a message to any user whose profile is public, but the comments might be publicly-viewable. Or not. And some users may block messages from forum members not defined as "friends." And you can't send a message to several users simultaneously. Bottom line: I cannot broadcast messages to all team captains, nor they to their teammates.
• HTML and forum tags are not allowed. This will make posting results difficult, as I have scripts that generate the results using tags (ex. [img] or < src=" ">). However, I have found that one can copy and paste HTML output directly into a post with little difficulty. RWOL admins have posted that HTML is allowed, but I have yet to have success with this. Hopefully that will be resolved soon.
• Graphics of any kind will not display in-line with text. This make displaying anything from smilies to pictures a little problematic. If you're familiar with the usual Results Posts, every user had a different smiley next to their results. Having graphics not display in-line effectively doubles the length of these results posts.

However, the good news is that I've been able to modify my code for capturing mileage posts and it appears to work correctly. I'm also writing code to publish the results here on the blog in case I'm not able to do so at the forums.