A 'Big up' to those responsible
It's not a "those", it's down to Mike Boxall listening to folk's suggestions and looking ahead. As more members came "onboard", things were obviously getting a bit slower - you might have noticed that previously - and before the board gradually ground to a halt I presume folk would have got rather hacked off and decided not to visit again.
Cleanitup would have been a victim of it's own success, so consider this upgrade as a survival mechanism!
Having said all that, I think we'll have to do a bit of collective grovelling to Mike to see if we can get our avatars back to what they were - Wrighty's lost his little devil and I'm trying to find my smiley face!