Eventually we may bring games back. There's no plugin for it yet, so either someone has to make one or we do. And it's not a priority at the moment :( They were fun, though!
As for signatures, I'll see what I can do. I'm sure there's a plugin for it.
Personally, I think it looks kind of a bit confusing with the way the whole forum is set. You really can't tell when someone is here nor can you see PM's or anything like that. I think I'm just used to the old one.
TKFKM: We're going to try implementing a "private messages" system into this new forum so we can gain that old functionality back. I like it too.
Matt: Hmm ok we'll get that fixed as soon as possible, thanks for the bug update.
Hisblood: Yeah, we will try to get something for games back on here soon. I'm not so sure what we'll end up deciding about sigies.
Thanks for your support everyone, we really appreciate your feedback. Please continue to provide feedback. We're here to serve you (the community), so please always feel free to let us know what you think -- positive or negative, we want to hear it.
I do miss the ability to send and recieve private messages and also profiles etc. The only allowance I can find for even posting a picture doesn't allow uploading. The new forum setup doesn't appear to allow getting to know other members personally like the old forum. More lyrics, less fellowship (that I've been able to locate). I realize the work required to code, but I miss the fellowship and developed 2 personal friendships with the other forum setup
Hisblood: You can now add a one line signature to your profile.
Matt & TKFKM: Private Messaging is back! On the left menu is a new link to your "Inbox." From there you can send out PMs to other members. Soon we'll make it easier to send PMs, but for now this is what we've got.
James: It's still a little confusing with the link placement top left for Start new Discussion and Send new message, so we'll need to tweak that and make it easier to see for everyone.
I personally like this new layout. This is the first time I have been on the new site, but as far as I can tell it looks great. On the old site, I had a hard time logging in for some reason and this new site was slicker than a button!
Ok - now that I've been on here a little longer and have looked at the site closer, I have to say that the navigation is pretty confusing. I just replied to a post that is OLD old. And some of the discussions I clicked on came up with an error message and wouldn't show the discussion page. So yeah . . . I need some time to get used to this! How do you know where the newest posts are?
It's ok you guys don't feel like you need to fix all the problems so soon. Just take one thing at a time and we'll be here for you guys. Great job on all the hard work you guys have doing for the site and all. God Bless you all.
Jonathan, I've taken the time to navigate through the new site. WONDERFUL job. I wish that it was possible to upload pictures and icons to your user profile. I know that I can deal with this by posting on the Web which will be done. Thank you for all of your work, I know from experience how tedious coding is. THANK YOU my friend.
Leinad: We are slightly modifying how the site functions and we will be having some management meetings (yes, we're an actual company behind the scenes here) about how to process these things.
We are only licensed by certain record labels to display lyrics, so right now we have closed to free-for-all lyrics submissions. We may open them up in a different manner soon though.
If you're an independent music artist that doesn't have your lyrics copyright by a legal record label yet, we will be more than happy to post them with a copyright to your name. All you need to do is mail to them: indielyrics * AT * christian-lyrics.net -- but format that like an e-mail address. Once I receive them and we have our meetings, we'll be able to process them accordingly.
Please put them into a Microsoft Word format and if there's an album to the track(s), please add that as well. Please also make sure you clearly cite the author's name so we know who to copyright the lyrics to.
Just one small niggle from me: The site is a set width, meaning that it doesn't readjust for browser windows. For me, it's difficult to have my browser the full width of my screen (due to my dock setup) so the edge of the forum gets cut off. I think this may also be a problem for people working at a lower resolution than 1024x768. I f you want it fixed width, that's fine I can live with it. just may be something to consider.
Jonathan, I still can't logout!! I was able to send a private message yesterday but now am unable to find this function. Any suggestions? Things may be more usable for me if I logout and sign back in. HELP!!
I have a comment in regards to submitting lyrics. When you submit them how come it stil' displays the request on the list, if one already submitted the lyrics to the song(s)? Is that how it supposed to be?
I don't know if this has been said because I read half way down this page and gave up haha (i need to go back to school lol). I think it was sort of half mentioned. I can see that it gives all the "recently" posted topics but it was a lot easier when it just told me what ones i hadn't read. It's just a bit hard to tell what I've looked at, replied to..etc.
Matt West: We're still looking into the logout issue. As for private messaging, there is a problem with the plugin that we're looking into. We hope to have it fixed for the next push in the next few days. One thing you might want to try is clearing all of your cookies.
TFKFM: Thanks for pointing that out. It should be fixed now.
Matt: The logout issue has been fixed! If you still experience problems, please let us know.
Everything appears to be working well! I know that the forum shows the latest comments, is there a way to tell which are the newest discussions? I do miss the amount and context of comments that used to be added more than daily by members that I no longer see posting on this forum. Matt
Matt: What do you mean by the amount of "context" of the comments?
We can look at improving how the comments are displayed. But if you look to the right, it shows "Last Active" and how long ago. Are you thinking of maybe something like a highlight of the last posts in the past 24 hours or something of that manner? What do you think would be effective?
Jonathan: OOPS, context = content, my fault proofreading voice recognition software before posting! The radio buttons to Format comments, text is understood but I'm not familiar w/BBCode. can you clue me in? Thanks, Matt
everything is going wonderfully with the forum Jonathan! soooo many new comments etc. It's funny, you have but to ask! God truly loves us. GOOD work on our forum
This whole site wouldn't be possible without God because He brought James and I together so we could work on it. James does all the core programming for it and I work on all the design, marketing, advertising, and future development for it. It's a great team we have that God has blessed us with a mutual interest in this site and this type of website.
Next month we will be giving away an iPod as a contest prize :) I will update everyone with the contest rules and regulations :)
We're working on upgrading the software right now but running into a few issues so we're trying to get them resolved as soon as possible so everything will be working again.
Shouldn't be more than a few days for us to upgrade the software *hopefully*