Where have they been hiding this, this should be at the front of the articles somewhere, is there anyway to make something like this sticky and have it stay at the top?
We had an Ad Hoc way of indexing but threads were only retrievable for about 7 days .
With the new system it will be much longer!
But it is a work in progress!
More detail on the Changes to the whole system here:
Freerepublic features (the run-down)
And there are other threads discussing various aspects!