It's true that the old 'prehistoric' forum was allowed to stagnate because it received no attention from the web technicians at Haymarket but software for this website is regularly updated in line with the other Haymarket owned internet sites.
A lot of the updates are not immediately apparent to forum users but moderators software has improved beyond all recognition and there are other aspects of this website beside the forum.
At least the technicians can be contacted by email now, in the bad old days we had to rely on carrier pigeons