So what do you think?

Hi all,

It's been nearly 3 months in the development and I would love what you wonderful people think.

• Are there any good bits?


• Any bad bits?


• Any so so bits?


• Is there anything you want changed?

This new site has been designed to give you the member a better experience in the works if the ubergirl, With a better site layout, new features the ability to add content, to chat, to engage in ways that the old site never had.

Over the next week I'll be adding a Iphone/Ipad skin so that you will be able to view the site on the go, don't worry Android and Windows mobile users I'm also working on those skins as we speak.

The new forum has the ability to view YouTube and other cloud video sites natively, so all you have to do is put the link in your post and it will appear, this also works for other video cloud sites as well as some picture cloud sites as well. Other features of the new forum has been missing is the ability to have an Avatar, a little thing but I feel that it makes all the difference to a forum, it's a small way for people to get to know one another by seeing your face or a pictorial depiction of you or some random picture that you feel shows you.

Karma - We have it in real life and now we have it here, so if you see a post that you like you can give the poster a little bit of karma, or if you find a post nasty or negative you can give a bit of bad karma, but remember karma goes both ways so that what goes around comes around. If you don't way to leave karma but still want to give something back to the poster there is always the "Thank You" button, it works so well on forums that I though it would be a good thing for here.

Storybank - The storybank is now organised by Date, by Author and by Title, this has been missing for a number of months from the old site and it's pleasing to see it back. You can also now post comments at the bottom of the stories, I'm working on a way for the author of the story to get an email to tell them when they get a comment but for now I recommend that authors check back and see what comments they have on their stories.

Chat Room - We have a fully working moderated chat room, and I know from chatting with Lfan that a "Town Meeting" would be a good idea for members to get together and have a good old chat, it's another way that members of this site can get together.

One thing that's not working is a "submit a story" link but that will be fixed by friday, so don't worry about it.

I hope that you will find something new here and that you help this place be the best site on the net.

Fats

CaptainIrishman wrote: Em...
serious question: Where have our pm's gone?
Will they be returned or should we have been told to back them up before the changeover?
(Or are they still there and I'm just lost?)

Later on today I'll be placing a link for people to get their PM's from the old forum, The transfer from the old set up to the new set up the PM's did not transfer over.

Hope this helps.

fats

Regarding the gallery, I agree -- especially if we put more online. Thinking about having a jump/index page that links off (and describes) the galleries individually. Will put it on the list....

ElF

I like it so far, and I only have two nitpicks: first there is a little problem with the galleries and all the images have been uploaded twice, second I miss the possibility to download the stories as txt documents.

Revan wrote: Love the new design, very well made

One minor thing I'm less thrilled about is the interface size on the forum.
Too much scrolling action required now compared to before. I'm not sure if this is intentional to fit the new icons, but I personally prefer forums where I can see as much of the content as possible in 1 glance.
But again, it is only a small issue for me personally, overall it's a huge leap forward so great job!

Hi Revan, i'm currently looking at different forum skins to see if there is one out there that has a smaller interface or a interface that will close elements to enhance the ability to view the forum.

Fats