We've made the decision to close the MacUser forum with effect from the end of May. We hope everyone will continue to contribute and debate as always, both on- and off-topic - but in 2011 we think the best venues for this are Twitter and Facebook.

We know many of you will be sad to see the forum go. So are we, but we really do hope you'll follow us into the world of social media, where all your comments, suggestions, diatribes and banter will be accessible to a wider audience.

Meanwhile, we've finally made progress on reinstating the reviews archive, and this will be back in place by the summer. Thanks for your patience - we know it seems crazy that such an important element of the site could fall by the wayside, but these things aren't always as easy as they look.

As always, our first priority is the magazine itself. You'll already have noticed some changes since the beginning of 2011, and there are more to come. Remember, you can find us in good newsagents, subscribe to the print edition, read on your Mac or iPad via Zinio, or find our PixelMags edition in the iOS App Store.

See you on the other side!

Very best wishes

Adam Banks
Editor in Chief

We should give their forum users a point in the right direction. ie Here!!!!

I wonder how long the other Dennis forums have ? ...

(I stopped my MacUser subscription years ago, after it became the iPodUser magazine, and seemed to have no material of any use to the jobbing designer in it at all.)

Sure, it still has a lot of iPad and iPhone stuff but I don't think it is as prevalent as it was a couple of years ago.

I looked at Mac mags in the supermarket the other day and noticed two things. 1) they all seemed to be a carbon copy of each other with the same "this is how you use iMovie" articles in them for example and 2) there was far too much phone/pad stuff in to make it worth me purchasing any of them.