Hi guys
Just to clear this up. There were some problems with people who had previously signed up to the site on the 'free' subscription who couldn't then upgrade to the 'gold' subscription in order to view the digital issues.
The only way around this was to 'expire' memberships to the site (hence the 1970 date, sorry Alcatraz it wasn't personalised to your birth year specifically

) so the next time you logged in you were prompted to choose again. Just to clarify this did not affect anyones user profiles so nothing has been lost.
At the moment you will be asked every calendar month to choose which subscription you would like. I am looking into other ways around this at the moment.
On your point Steve, if you check the remember me next time you log in it should remember you every time as it did previously. If this is not the case let me know and I will look into it.
Sorry for the confusion caused. I really should have posted something about this when it happened.
Daryl