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For the past 2 days, users have not been able to upload new avatars and likely many other types of images and attachments. Not only did the web site get moved this week in a sudden and unplanned manner, but it also ended up on different versions of apache and php. As such, there has been some...

-- There is a new forum section today for Console and Handheld games. Read the intro post in the section for more information. -- Also, the 'PowerBuyers and Auction Ace' (Ace.com) related forums have been merged into the 'External Auctions' forum section.

Microsoft has apparently solved the problem in their system that is affecting us. An email we received 25 minutes ago said, amongst other things, "... Fortunately, we have conducted an investigation into the emails originating from your IP space and we have implemented a fix for your...

Don't request email copies of updates to your posts then report as spam... On Sunday afternoon, about 5:30 in the afternoon, a user here reported to AOL that about 10 messages we had sent him were SPAM, even though he requested these email because he set up in his profile for the system to send...

Many large ISPs have moved to an email 'whitelist' system. If a sender is not on their list of approved senders (by IP address at least), mail from them goes into a black hole. An industry report that was just released shows about 15% of legitimate corporate email is getting vaporized...

Politics, Religion and similar topics have their own section now. Political and similar threads that have no real end but to express and opinion that some others are likely to have problems with are now banned in the Chat About Almost Anything Section and now belong in their own sub-forum. Too...

There are a few users that are rating their own threads immediately after posting them (perfect 5's of course). Due to the current forum bug, no one else can rate the threads. As such, we've just turned off the ability for regular users to rate threads until the bug is fixed.

A user reported a bug today which resulted in a search on vBulletin's web site. There is a known bug that got introduced in the latest version of vBulletin that in many cases will incorrectly prevent a user from 'rating' a thread telling them that they already voted on the thread when they...

The 'Report Thread' feature has been funky since at least Tuesday early morning, but has just been fixed. During this time none of the supermods or admins have received any reported threads, and only a portion of them went out to moderators. So if you reported something and didn't get a...

New Features: Search on 3-letter words, and New Styles/Skins There are a few new changes to announce today. First... Several of you have asked for the ability to search on 3 letter words (CPU, Z80, etc), as the default minimum length was 4. We finally got it working yesterday, though the...

RSS feeds are now updated every 60 minutes, collecting up to 20 postings within the last 24 hours. Forums have to be able to be seen without logging in to be available via RSS. So, for example, the extra news links sections are not available via RSS. I'm not looking for the search engines to...

Trader Ratings - Limit 3 ratings per day. FYI

Effective immediately, we are running of test. Now when you are viewing an individual thread there will be a list of similar threads at the bottom of each page. We are testing the feature to see how useful the suggestions are, and how much of a server load is added by the futures...

TBBK has been removed as one of the moderators, for the simple reason he hasn't been online since last year. If he becomes active on the board again, there is no reason he couldn't be a moderator again.

Four of the existing moderators have become 'supermoderators', meaning, among other things, that they have moderator abilities in all the different online sections. Additionally, Mattroid has become a new moderator for the Chat About Anything section.

Welcome to the New Forums. This Post is where I'll try and explain a number of things about the transition. It's a work in progress. I'll be editing this post several times over the next few days. As such, it might be worth revisiting it every once in a while. 1. There are a lot of new...