But a happy day for our new site and the continual growth of the MC community!
We have been talking about it for a while and after long deliberation have decided on moving on from the current web site format to a new platform based on Telligent's Community Server. This technology is what Microsoft uses for their Blogs and Xbox Live forums. Numerous other Large sites are also using it, See their site for more info on it.
We have been working long and hard on customizing the new site to give us a new look and feel and we are almost done!
We expect to roll out the new site in the next Day or so.
Please keep in mind that once this happens you will need to create a new account profile. The new profiles are quite flexible. The old profiles will be retired along with the old site. I will keep the old site alive in Archive mode which means it will be read only, no changes will be alowed. I will post a link to the archived version when I finish moving the new site to this address. The test address of the new site will either be retired or redirected here.
I will send out a newsletter from the old site (old emails) to inform everyone (that is subscribed!) that the new site is live and that they should come check it out!
Our new Forums will be a lot more powerful and more like standard forums with Signatures, Avatars, Personal Messages, attachments and much much more! There will be more topics available as well. You can add Users and Topics to your favorites to easily keep track of posts.
I am also going to allow our members to have their own Blogs. The only requirement is that you have a concept or topic to discuss and that you post in it regularly.
I may also create a private locked forum for clans that have made the MC Servers their home so they dont have to worry about making their own sites and servers.
The new Photo gallery is very cool with each user having their own personal Gallery!
There is a new File Downloads section that is very powerful. You will now be able to upload files to the server to share with the MC Community. We will host lots of new files, MapPacks that I have ben creating will be available there as well as all the maps that come out of the MC Community.
Oh, I almost forgot, All the graphics have been approved by Troop!