Are you guys ready to kick it up a notch? New software upgrade will have tough anti spam features and will also make GU much more socially friendly. We will also be more up to date with the current internet trends.
Everything will look exactly the same, color scheme isn't changing. We will just get more cool features. For example,
the search/tag cloud will give us a real picture of what is being discussed and searched by displaying a 'cloud' of key words. The larger the font the more frequently it has been tagged by users. When you click on a term on the cloud it will display a list of forum posts/articles/profiles where the discussion took place. Of course, it will be all gecko related
Users will be able to create interest groups... say the "phelsuma group" or "Leaf Tailed group" or "Women of GU"
, etc. You can then see who else is in the group and shares your interest, etc
Like I already mentioned, the profiles will be much more interactive and will look somewhat like this, but with our color scheme of course will be 100% customizable by you so you can change the default look and feel of your profile.
In addition to the gallery that we have, users will be able to post photos to their profiles.
There's a lot of changes, coming, all for the better IMO. It will make this place better, more secure and much more happening! It will be easier to interact with other members via the profiles, but at the same time the forum will also have a lot of improvements as well. Over all this will be a good change and our look and feel won't be changed, just few more features will be added, making us much more current.
I know we have few here that take change hard and don't like it, but we have to improve and make the place better and keep ahead of the spammers and hackers. Spammers are constantly getting better and the latest version which was virtually impossible to spam is now getting hit a lot more then before.
Good thing is that this change won't be as big as when I took over the forum, it will be more of a major tweak than anything else.
However, this could mean some down time if the update goes wrong, hopefully this won't be the case. I'll try to do it within the next few weeks.
Are you guys ready???
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