Hi Bob,
Overall, I view this as great news. I am a user of the site and the Registry. I think improvements will help - especially the population reports, which have always been a bit difficult to use, I think.
Question: I have spent a fair bit of time uploading many nice scans to my current SGC Registry...I'm assuming that the overhaul will not cause me to lose any of this?
I have had a recent bad experience like this with a different website overhaul, and it was very disappointing to have to start from scratch again because of an "improvement".