I just wanted to quickly explain that we've changed the navigation menu quite a bit.

Previously, all areas of the site fell into the "browse" sub menu. We've changed this so now all major areas have their place on the menu proper, with some other links having been added to new or already existing sub-menus (eg. Member list and staff list being moved into the social submenu.)

We hope this makes navigating the website easier! 🙂

I just wanted to give an explanation as to why when you load the website it now takes you to the forums, instead of the the old page.

So, through pages we would previously create articles with some news on and maybe link to forums, it was a nice way to bring news to the forefront.

However, I've been trying for sometime to add other blocks and features onto the main page and it's just not letting me add any blocks so I've disabled it for now and will continue working at it in the background.

This won't impact how everyone uses the site, just means the default section of the website will be the forums for a little while.

Maintenance was completed on time without any hitch. We've also made a number of changes across all areas of the site that will hopefully make things easier to do and give.

We've now fully configured everything on the website and ensured permissions are correct for each user group. - We are hoping everyone has a better time now with getting around and using the website! 😄

Terms

• Update to Guidelines.

• Update to registration agreement.

• Update to privacy policy

Main objective was to make everything easier to understand and follow. Removed most of the legal jargon.

Here is a brief list of the changes made during maintenance.

General Changes

• Changed the menu order of some items and taken some things out of the drop downs.

• Added "Site Testers" (for those who registered at an earlier phase of the site) and "Alumni Staff" (group for staff if they retire and wish to longer assist in running the site) user groups.

• Corrected staff and member list pages.

• Added functionally to tag groups into posts and other content (@groupname) - (example if you were type "moderators" after the @ sign then a notification will be sent to all members. - Please only tag admins and mods just when appropriate to the situation and kindly don't tag any of the other member groups.

• Some changes to reactions. Added some new ones. Reactions still affect reputation. Some increase it, some don't have an effect and others will subtract from it.

Account Creation

• Upon registering and activating their accounts new members will receive a welcome email and message.

Leaderboard

• We've reworked the leaderboard. Originally it worked by calculating a days winner by reputation. This has been updated to instead base calculations around content posted. Therefore now more effectively awarding activeness and participation.

Forums

• Added view option to have the categories as tabs clickable tabs.

• When posting a thread you will now have the option to add a short descriptipn of what the thread will be about.

• Support and advice forums with now have an option for selectable prefixes to mark threads as solved or sorted.

Clubs

• Removed public and read only options when starting clubs. - No clubs removed. If you had a public club it is now a open club. This ensures people who create clubs have more control who can see and access their clubs.

  Open : Anyone can see and join.

  Closed : Anyone can see and request to join.

  Private : Only members can see, owner has to invite to join.

Profile

• Option to add date of birth now added to registration. Account created before this maintenance will be asked to confirm their date of birth.

• Customisation options have been fine tuned. Allowing you to select backgrounds, music, and other bells and whistles. Some options may not be available to regular members

A big thank you to everyone who took the time to join and help out with the testing phase, and please let us know of any thoughts and feedback you have!

Stay awesome! 🤘

Thank you,

The Admin Team

Today we have entered the first stage of the phased opening. The website is being shared to those who expressed initial interest the opportunity to register and use the website early.

Website is responsive so can be viewed on phone and computer. There is no feature loss on the mobile version, just everything is more compact.

Just to make things clear... We are still working on parts of the website, and more and more will be added over time, at the moment the very basics of what we want we have in place!

Please feel free to share any feedback with us, we're interested in your thoughts!

People who register and use the site during this time will be given a unique user group as a sign of thanks from myself and the other admins once we are ready to move to the next phase.

Thank you for joining us at this time, and we hope you'll decide to stick around!