Different people use FT for different reasons. While I admire those FTers who are able to actively monitor and post on multiple forums/threads, my time to dedicate to FT on a daily basis is limited. So receiving the information that I find valuable from various forums in my e-mail box every day is a very convenient way for me to stay in-touch with the flow of information that is most important to me. If I don't get these e-mails on a daily basis (which take me directly to the forums I'm interested in) then I'm unlikely to visit FT regularly, if at all.

I could probably find various work-arounds using some of the other functionality on FT to access at least some of the information I want, but that's not really the point. The real issue is that IB has many other websites to manage and this issue is clearly low on their priority list… so they occasionally dabble with the issue to give us the impression that they are “actively” working on it, but not really. The ineptitude of the IB tech team and general disregard for prioritizing this problem is the real issue. Moreover, it also gives us a good example of how certain websites are driven by specific personalities (i.e. Randy) that are passionate about the purpose of a website and less concerned with the business/money making side of things and trying to figure out how to create synergies across their portfolio of websites.

The information and knowledge on FT is unmatched - at least for now - but websites like this either evolve or die. Since IB took over FT it seems to be the latter.

I’m moving to milepoint – let’s hope IB doesn’t try to buy that as well.