1102 posts and not even a week! I'm glad you all seem to have taken to the new forums so kindly. Poke around and see what you can find. Check out the extra smileys in the dropdown. There are help/question threads in the FAQ board and we're all here to answer your questions.

Don't forget to send us those nominations for our Weekly Featured Poem, which will be displayed in the Portal Page and marked with ...

If you previously won a prize in either of our Bi-Annual Contests, please re-post it in the appropriate forum here so we can sticky them once again!! Once you've moved them over, please PM me or Harklight so that we can sticky and mark them with the winning icons . Thanks so much!!

We've gone through an Upgrade!!

The staff and I have been testing the new board and I cannot thank them enough for their steadfast support in this change. The New forums are much more user-friendly and stable. They are, quite frankly, safer for your computer. We've taken a long, hard look before implementing this change, and we hope you like it. The new forums have a ton of the things that you, the members, have been asking for--like being able to find all of a member's poems simply by going into their profile; a built-in chat (just click the link on the bottom...

The portal page will automatically show up when you first visit the forums. Click "Home" to take you to the Forums Proper.

Also, at the bottom of the Forum Homepage you should now find a "Join the Chat" thingy.

Opinions?

I notice that the PM inbox is much smaller. We'll have to learn to deal with that.

I just enabled the "report post" feature, which puts a little exclamation point thingy in a post that enables users to report posts to the Team.

So this board will be exclusively for the News Feed (I'll be moving it to where the Test Post is in the sidebar momentarily.)

It will display the latest post in this board only, so we can keep the old threads for a record while still giving up to the minute updates.

2nd post for testing purposes only.