Pointing out the obvious it seems, but from the complaints here it appears that many are not taking advantage of what, for me, was the solution.

Those who only read a few specific forums can easily create a bookmark (what a radical idea!) for each of his/her favorite forum(s), put all these in a FlyerTalk folder under the Favorites menu (in IE), and not have to worry about opening screen displaying or not displaying direct links to desired forums.

Active threads of the day: http://www.flyertalk.com/forumcgi/se...ction=getdaily

Even with a new DSL connection, I don't know why one would want to bother loading up a screen full with the forum list just to click on 4 or 5 of the forums. (Or even more: my FT folder includes 15 forums or so).