I can't even EDIT my question which i just posted above.
And the discussions are MUCH slower now on my computer. Very difficult to use. (Is this by design perhaps..?)
And when I try to "Reply"--i get an error message in a pink box saying
"An error occurred while trying to submit your post. Please try again."
That would be an error by the Apple programmers, i guess. At least i can go to the "advanced editor" (a small, grey link in the corner) and submit the reply, but that in itself is absurd. And the "Advanced" editor forces a text box width of nearly 1024, meaning it MUST go off my screen on one side. Pathetic. This is stuff that programmers figured out how to avoid in the 1970s. Hello, Apple.