RE: Interesting...

>>This is the first time I have logged in here...I am liking the singnature options and such...I was just wondering is someone could perhaps explain to me how this new system differs from the other? Thanks. Andy

Great question!

Most of the differences are that a lot of things that used to be fixed are now preferences - such as threading vs chronological order display, or old-to-new vs new-to-old display.

You can now come to the forums and ask to see only that day's posts, or posts since your last log in or the one before, or any particular time frame. This can be done at the level of the whole site or just an individual forum.

You can email a post or thread to yourself or someone else. You can sign up to be notified by email if someone replies to your message.

There are new features such as the "Using HTML" page, signatures, emoticons, marquee code (the scrolling messages), and quite a few others that are not earth-shaking but make things a bit more fun for users who want them.

The search function is MUCH better - you can search by date and time, by username, by keywords, and the search will look at ALL messages (on the site or in a specific forum), not just the archived ones as is currently the case.

On the backend there are a lot of changes that won't directly impact the users, but one nice feature is that hidden posts can be restored, so if a post is accidentally pulled, or if someone appeals and we change our minds, it can be put back.

Probably the biggest change is navigation. The whole thread is now visible from every post IN the thread, so you can move around a discussion easily, with no backtracking and no dead-end sub-threads. When viewing from "TOday's Posts" or searching by date, you get additional navigation features that make it even easier.
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Christie Keith
Director of Community Services
pethobbyist.com

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