Welcome to our new home!
As you can see, we've chosen a retro design to our surroundings. I miss woodgrain. Remember when EVERYTHING was woodgrain? Furniture, walls, video game consoles, stereo equipment... hell, my dad even had a car with woodgrain doors! Well, it's back in style. At least in our little world.
I'd recommend getting used to the new features, there's much much more you can do here than on EZboard, and almost anything is possible since the language that drives this (PhP) is quite open-ended. Get registered, Remember to add in your custom title, signature, and avatar, and then settle in!
You may have seen this before, but here is a list of a few things you can do here that are new to us former EZboard slaves:
- You can now private message someone and they'll get it immediately if they're on the forums, if not, they'll get it when they log in.
- Polls are no longer limited to 5 choices.
- You can upload your own avatar or select from a gallery of custom avatars that I personally created.
- You can create your own custom title (for a limited time - later we'll resume control of this).
- If you don't like our theme (backgrounds, layout, etc) you'll be able to use alternates. This won't be installed right away but it's easy enough to do. You'll like our new theme though. Very RETRO.
- You can view a complete member list, which shows all kinds of stats on each member.
- The date you first joined is logged, and you're assigned an ever-growing user number so the "vets" can easily be distinguished from the n00bs, regardless of post count.
- You can see who's online not just via the tracker at the bottom (like EZboard) but within each post as well, it appears underneath your username in every post.
- Although I haven't thought out how we'll use it just yet, you can join "groups". One possibility would be to have Atari fans/Sony fans/Xbox fans and the like.
- You can see who's browsing each particular forum at any time.
- There is a FAQ built in to the links so if you're not sure about how to use a certain feature, you can get that info while on the forums without having to wait for someone to answer your question.
- If you choose, you can add your AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, and website right into your profile, and these will be contained in buttons on each of your posts.
- You can change the board's time so that it matches your own.
- The search feature actually works. All the time. And you can search across multiple forums at once, so you never have to "dig around" for old topics.
- All of the custom stuff we added to EZboard in the past will still be available, even the links you see up top to the member photos, calendar, etc.
Welcome home, gang.
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