Upgrading the Forums

I will be closing the site tonight so I can upgrade the site to 3.7. Finally!

You won’t lose pm’s, posts or anything. Members will get new albums that will be in their CP and I’ll activate Social Groups as you saw in our ‘practice’ board. Only Mods will create social groups to start with, but anyone can join any group. You’ll be able to post messages in your CP that others can see, as well as respond to, like in MySpace

If you need to respond to

Yes, I know it’s short notice but I’m hoping it will be down for less than an hour. But it could be two.

I’m going to wait until DH gets home and we get the kids to bed, so this will be about 9:00 PM PST.

Thanks for understanding! I have to fit this into my schedule too.   We finally got a new doggie (Indiana Bones!), I actually edited my new podcast and will upload that later today. Not to mention carpool, sewing, and uh… dishes and laundry.

Take tonight off and sew something kewl to show when we get back on!

Here’s the list of some of the upgrades. Some are for the user end and some are for the admin end:

* Inline spam management & prevention
* Thread tagging
* Search cloud / tag cloud
* Thread prefixes
* Reciprocal friendships between users
* Public visitor messaging on profile pages with ‘conversation’ feature
* User picture galleries with user comment facility
* User-created social groups with invite only and moderated membership options
* Extended member profile pages
* Customizable member profile pages with admin-controlled styling abilities
* Inline editing of custom user profile fields
* Lightbox viewer for attached images
* Viewable and comparable history maintained for post edits
* Notices system for navigation bar
* User change history
* Social bookmarking integration