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Welcome to the What Hi-fi? Sound and Vision Forums, your essential destination for discussion, advice and information about all things home entertainment.

We aim to offer friendly, lively Forums where members can share opinions as well as knowledge and experiences. To keep things fun and fair for everyone, we ask you all to read - and expect you to abide by - the following rules.

We thought we’d let you in on a little secret: we’ve been busy developing a shopping site for whathifi.com, and we’re now ready to release the beta version for testing.

We’re only releasing this to our Forum users at this stage as part of the development process. We’d like to invite you, our most regular users, to take part, posting any feedback on this Forum thread so we can pass it back to the developers.

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After some investigation (and going through the upgrade process from 7 to 8 to 9 on my own machine), we have identified an issue for users in Internet Exporer 8 and 9 versions when replying to forum threads, where typed text does not display in the rich text editor (though it is actually recorded and will show, albeit with all those spelling mistakes intact) when you save the post.

This can be resolved by switching to 'compatibility mode' in IE.  The instructions for doing so can be found here:

The operation of the Forums is pretty much as you've all been used to, and we've tried to keep the look and feel as close to the old one as possible.

If you haven’t yet logged in, you’ll find you need to do so with your USERNAME and password, not your email address as previously.

But there are a few new things to learn:

1) Avatar uploads should now work for everyone!

- To upload your avatar, go to your 'My account' page, click 'Edit' and scroll down to the section labelled 'Picture'.