The new Talk London

Don't comment on anything that doesn't interest or impact us but the new site absolutely must have a search function. Thankfully I have a Norton vault to look after my passwords as would never remember a 12 letter/digit/upper/lower/character combo otherwise!

I have yet to see the topic that I am most interested in, notably climate change. Particularly after this last weekend. The mayor says it’s important. Boris says it’s important. LTN’s only increase pollution and carbon from slow moving cars and keep it all on main roads. Mor important is construction but no one mentions that. The demolition and rebuilding (with lots of concrete and use of low water supplies) is releasing a lot of greenhouse gases. But the Mayor simply encourages this. If it was to build homes it might be more acceptable but with a short radius of my home there a 3 building projects - all offices. Not too far away by Blackfriars Bridge is a huge office and retail park. No homes. When is this lunacy going to stop? When summer heatwave temperatures go up to 50 degrees??

The UX is basically broken on mobiles once comments start coming in. The email link back to the discussion to see what someone's reply is, simply shows you your post, plus some things which are not labelled comments, do not appear in a 'tree' under your original post plus you don't seem to be able to reply to folks' comments?

You wanted me to fill in a survey. But your password requirement is stronger than National Savings and HMRC!!. Time to wake up or give up? I refuse to reset my password yet again. Your requirement is disproportionate and just plain stupid:
Your password must contain:
• at least one standard punctuation mark or symbol (for example, !$#,%)
• at least one upper case letter
• at least one number
• at least 12 characters

every time I come I have to re-set my password and the procedure is so infuriating that I give up in disgust. In particular why do your requirements for a valid password appear on the screen only AFTER I have dreamed up a memorable pasowrd and typed it in twice?.

anyone would think I was entering fort Knox.

The Topics list needs to be changed so that Open Topic discussions are listed and clearly marked. Fed up with going to one Topic after another only to find that all the discussions are Closed. I simply do not have the time to hunt around, endlessly clicking. So I don't bother.

This site is baffling. Random number of posts displayed on each page (sometimes zero), and as others have pointed out, when I get an email notification that someone has commented on my post, the link in the email doesn't take me to my comment, so I can't find it. Internet forums have been around for decades, these problems have all been solved repeatedly.

I'm troubled by the proposed expansion of ULEZ to include the whole of Greater London. Don't get me wrong, I'm all in favour of clean-running vehicles, as such, pinning the date to 2005 registered petrol vehicles is to miss the mark by a country mile. As you may have surmised, I run an appreciably older vehicle (1991) which, because of its age, I would be liable to pay the daily ULEZ charge. Going by the emissions read-out on its MoT test, it emits only 86ppm of unburnt hydrocarbons. The MoT requirement is that the figure be less than 1200ppm. I think everyone would agree that 86ppm is significantly lower than 1200ppm! Is it not unreasonable to think therefore that there may be very much newer cars (post 2005) which, by their age are NOT liable to pay the ULEZ charge but which are far higher polluters than my clean running 1991 car? Mr. Khan...please do not focus on simply the age/year in which the vehicle was registered but look to how cleanly it runs based upon the emissions reading of the MoT test.

* Password rules are too onerous. It may be official recommendation - for top secrets. But not for things like this, surely! A (typical for bureaucracies) rigid mindset regardless of context.

* Demographic etc information too excessive - birth month is 🤦‍♂️ ridiculous.

If we were to discover how much was spent on the ULEZ zone, I would think we should be ashamed of ourselves. All those cameras and signs at every junction of the North and South Circulars must have cost a large fortune. Given that soon they will be redundant as electric/hydrogen vehicles take over, how much better it would have been to reduce the cost of public transport.

Oh my gosh a web forum is old tech not hard to get right. How can you mess it up?
Just make it clear where to start a discussion and go.
What is this conversation still closed coming up from 2019?
Sort it out. This is an opportunity to gauge how we are feeling and you can't get it right.
It's simple.
We have machete weilding people on the streets. Weed smoking in the streets. You have shut all the roads and charging twice to drive down the roads that are open and God forbid you drive more than 20mph whilst an ebike or scooter fly by at 30mph and they don't have to pay and they have right of way. It really is a zoo. Congrats. Like the movie title we made a zoo.

I would like to open and or join a discussion on how the Mayor of London and social agencies and law enforcement in London are working together to combat Cyber Abuse and Domestic Abuse. Working together on this will
improve the lives of individuals and families, bring digital literacy and cyber safety to all throughout London. We need joined up innovation.

This site is horrendous ,took ages to get in