Thanks for all this...Heleena, happy to provide a 'where are you?' forum. Lots of people want to be anonymous, but lots more would like to meet up in the real world, and we're keen on this. (In time, we hope to have a Gransnet local, like Mumsnet local). We didn't add it in right at the beginning because we didn't have any members and so didn't know what everyone would want, but we'll get tech onto it now.
senua - Some of the differences from MN are to do with us thinking we could improve on a design which had sort of grown up organically. And some of them are to do with being a fledgling site. For instance, the 90 day rule doesn't exist because we couldn't think that far ahead (!) when we launched. We've been surprised by how many members we've had so we may well have to bring it in.
Ditto with search. We do have a search button, obviously, but it's not as complicated as on MN because there's not so much to search. We wanted to keep things as simple as possible for newbies. But if people want a more advanced search facility as the forums get more congested, then we'll bring one in. So do please keep the suggestions coming. We'll do our best to respond.