Alamy actually gave me a call in response to my earlier post above. Alamy's forum's are managed by a third party provider. Unfortunately the provider upgraded the forum prematurely and ironically have managed to block Alamy from logging into and posting in the forum themselves. Alamy are working with the provider to get issues fixed as a matter or urgency.  Alamy are also tweeting words to this effect for anyone on Twitter. So I think we just have to bare with things while Alamy w