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Quite a few new features were added to the site on the early hours of Saturday morning.

For those of you that haven't spotted them yet this is a quick run down:

Thread Tagging/Tag Cloud
A new way to facilitate searching and grouping of threads, it is now possible for users to add tags to threads they post or read.
Tags can be added when creating a new thread, or to an existing thread by any user (with appropriate permissions).
Any users who then click on these tags will not only find all thread that have the same tag as the one clicked, but will also contribute to the building of a search tag cloud, which gives users a quick guide as to what has been searched for recently and most frequently.

Reciprocal Friendships Between Users
As part of our new social networking system, users can now request that people on their buddy list confirm their friendship, after which time a person's list of confirmed friends will be viewable to other users.

Public Messaging
This allows users to communicate publicly via their profile pages.

User Picture Galleries
Completely separate from the Gallery, this allows a user to create albums and upload pictures to their own account.
The ability to view these albums and pictures can be limited by the user to just board staff and people on their buddy list if they want privacy.
Registered members are set to a maximum of 20 pictures on their account whereas a Paid Member is set to 100 pictures maximum.

User-Created Social Groups
To further social cohesion between users and to encourage people to make friends, the site now includes a facility to allow users to create their own social/interest groups.
These groups are enhanced by having their own public messaging system, and the ability to add pictures to the group from user albums.
Currently only Paid Members can create a new social group.

New Member Profile Page
In order to accommodate all the new features, the member profile page has been completely redesigned from the ground up.
The new page presents information in a far cleaner and more logical manner, while dividing up information into manageable chunks using a tabbed interface.
Individual profile field categories can be displayed alone in blocks in the right column, in addition to appearing by default in the 'About Me' tab.

Member Customisation of Profile Page
This allows Paid Members only to alter fonts, colours, background and borders etc. of their profile page in order to create a more personalised look.

In-line Editing of Profile Field Values
The 'About Me' tab of each member's profile page has edit controls, allowing them to quickly change values without leaving their profile page.



Any questions or if you just want to discus any of the above, either PM myself or Steve, or start a thread in General Chat.


I hope you like the changes we have made and there will be a few more to come in the next couple of weeks 8)