Dominic,
That would be fair enough except nothing much works at all apart from the forum. It's very risky to relaunch such an iconic website, without any warning, having lost most of the functionality of the old website. It would have been better to beta test the new site offline and only launch it online when most things are up and running.
If you want people to be patient please provide some information about what is planned to be launched in the upcoming weeks. Users might be more understanding if they knew what was coming. Currently the only information from flightsim.com about the relaunch is the message on the forum opening page about logging in with your email address. I would expext a news article about this at the very least, ideally with a little advance notice to avoid nasty surprises. At the moment people like me are complaining impatiently because we don't know what your plans are.
Kevin