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[LeeD]

We are working, working, working to get CF2 back up and running to full capacity. Many many hours have been put in to making additions and correcting bugs around here. I wanted to give a special thanks to our coder, server guru, and all of the CF staff that have worked to make this happen!

I also wanted to make a specific announcement about the new ad layout. We now have like on the old design a leaderboard (horizonal) banner up top and at the very bottom of every page, we added a right hand sidebar ad (which you can be opted out of for free), and finally we added a block of 2 ads which appear on the threaded discussion pages underneath the first post.

We have spent much on CF over the past several months and will continue to aim high with our standards to achieve two things:

1. a friendly and feature rich Christian community
2. a speedy experience

I also established a new usergroup on CF called "active contributors". This usergroup comes as an automatic promotion once you hit the 1,000 posts mark as a member here. An instant benefit for hitting the promotion is that the right hand sidebar ad disappears (along with the whole sidebar). This is one simple way to give back to active contributors / members.

You can also become a site supporter (http://christianforums.com/payments.php) and instantly browse CF without any ads. We hope you like the progress made and you can look forward to many more updates and fixes to come! :clap:

[Crazy Liz]

Are these new banners what's making the posts too wide for my browser?

[TomUK]

Everyone knows the lengths people (the staff, techs, what have you) are going through to make the site possible in it's second phase. There is unending potential for this site in it's current state, I do believe it. Looking forward to it all coming together in the end, and it's really starting to shape up.

Thank you, to everyone involved.

~ Lynn

Agree with all of these points. The tech team are amazing and CF has the potential to be amazing. Like most of the forum has already said however, at the moment it feels like we've taken quite a few steps backwards. I hope the site can be moved forward once again.

Firms slaps on the back to all those working behind the scenes. You've done an amazing job.

[nexialys]

Are these new banners what's making the posts too wide for my browser?
Not really... the new display is 1000 pixels wide, that may break some view if you have a smaller monitor...

we're going to provide a narrowed style tomorrow... and some flavors too...

[Sojourner1]

we're going to provide a narrowed style tomorrow... and some flavors too...

flavors?

[snoochface]

I hope "flavors" means "colors that won't make my brain bleed" ;)

And maybe some larger fonts on the UserCP links.

[Rep Daddy]

Not really... the new display is 1000 pixels wide, that may break some view if you have a smaller monitor...

we're going to provide a narrowed style tomorrow... and some flavors too...

Cool.

[beamishboy]

I also established a new usergroup on CF called "active contributors". This usergroup comes as an automatic promotion once you hit the 1,000 posts mark as a member here. An instant benefit for hitting the promotion is that the right hand sidebar ad disappears (along with the whole sidebar). This is one simple way to give back to active contributors / members.

You can also become a site supporter (http://christianforums.com/payments.php) and instantly browse CF without any ads. We hope you like the progress made and you can look forward to many more updates and fixes to come! :clap:

I should qualify as an "ultra-active contributor" since I've got so many posts in just 4 months of membership. Maybe you guys can make me a moderator cos I'm always on CF. Hehe.

[stumpjumper]

Are we talking a Baskin and Robbins esque 32 flavors? :p

[Lindon Tinuviel]

I should qualify as an "ultra-active contributor" since I've got so many posts in just 4 months of membership. Maybe you guys can make me a moderator cos I'm always on CF. Hehe.

Go outside. Play some ball. Get some sun.

[beamishboy]

Go outside. Play some ball. Get some sun.

I play rugby for school. My school is probably the most famous school in the world and we're good at rugby. Hehe.

[Sojourner1]

I play rugby for school. My school is probably the most famous school in the world and we're good at rugby. Hehe.

Good for you! My son plays lacrosse (second year) and he loves it...even more than he loves soccer. :thumbsup:

[beamishboy]

Good for you! My son plays lacrosse (second year) and he loves it...even more than he loves soccer. :thumbsup:

Just found out what that is. It's a native American Indian game, my dictionary tells me.

[D'Ann]

Yuppers Rep Daddy... very cool! :)

[Lel]

I play rugby for school. My school is probably the most famous school in the world and we're good at rugby. Hehe.

Hogwart's? :P

[beamishboy]

Hogwart's? :P

Better than that and a lot more famous. It's been around way before JK Rowling's great great great great great grandfather was born and it's more than twice as old as America.

[Criada]

Better than that and a lot more famous. It's been around way before JK Rowling's great great great great great grandfather was born and it's more than twice as old as America.


And you don't know what Lacrosse is???
All English girls' public schools play it.....
You have any female relatives??

[beamishboy]

And you don't know what Lacrosse is???
All English girls' public schools play it.....
You have any female relatives??

The only female relatives I have are my mother and my aunt and I don't think they play lacrosse.

So, lacrosse is mainly a girl's game?

[Criada]

It is in England.
And if your somewhat transparent statements are in fact true, I would imagine that your mother and aunt both went to schools which played it.


Anyway... this is somewhat off topic!
Back to the banners.....

[beamishboy]

It is in England.
And if your somewhat transparent statements are in fact true, I would imagine that your mother and aunt both went to schools which played it.


Anyway... this is somewhat off topic!
Back to the banners.....

Actually, my statements are not transparent. They only appear so. Nobody in CF knows which country I'm in at the moment. I change my profile time every now and then. Right now, I'm on a student exchange and am in a different country.

It pays to be careful. Last year, a couple of my friends and I took a train from Paddington to Hereford with our bicycles. We were meeting two boys there who said on a chat site that they would show us a secret bike trail. At Hereford station, we were met by a man who told us to put our bikes in his van. I felt something was not right. The boys were to meet us at the station with their bikes. Nothing was said about a man and a van. But the man knew a lot about our chat at the site. I told my friends not to go with him and they agreed.

In the end, the three of us went cycling on our own and we covered a good 100 km of a lovely bike trail. So, it pays to be careful about one's identity on the net.

[Crazy Liz]

Not really... the new display is 1000 pixels wide, that may break some view if you have a smaller monitor...

we're going to provide a narrowed style tomorrow... and some flavors too...

Any update on tomorrow?

[NorrinRadd]

Any update on tomorrow?

;) Still half an inch too wide for me, too.

[JoyforJESUS]

Thank you LEE

for your hard work, and all you are putting into this.

:clap:
Joy

[JoyforJESUS]

Actually, my statements are not transparent. They only appear so. Nobody in CF knows which country I'm in at the moment. I change my profile time every now and then. Right now, I'm on a student exchange and am in a different country.

It pays to be careful. Last year, a couple of my friends and I took a train from Paddington to Hereford with our bicycles. We were meeting two boys there who said on a chat site that they would show us a secret bike trail. At Hereford station, we were met by a man who told us to put our bikes in his van. I felt something was not right. The boys were to meet us at the station with their bikes. Nothing was said about a man and a van. But the man knew a lot about our chat at the site. I told my friends not to go with him and they agreed.

In the end, the three of us went cycling on our own and we covered a good 100 km of a lovely bike trail. So, it pays to be careful about one's identity on the net.


:wave: :thumbsup: Good Deal, always protect yourself. Joy

[Shubunkin]

Actually, my statements are not transparent. They only appear so. Nobody in CF knows which country I'm in at the moment. I change my profile time every now and then. Right now, I'm on a student exchange and am in a different country.

It pays to be careful. Last year, a couple of my friends and I took a train from Paddington to Hereford with our bicycles. We were meeting two boys there who said on a chat site that they would show us a secret bike trail. At Hereford station, we were met by a man who told us to put our bikes in his van. I felt something was not right. The boys were to meet us at the station with their bikes. Nothing was said about a man and a van. But the man knew a lot about our chat at the site. I told my friends not to go with him and they agreed.

In the end, the three of us went cycling on our own and we covered a good 100 km of a lovely bike trail. So, it pays to be careful about one's identity on the net.


That is scary! Happy that you were wise to not go along with that.

I'm sure if someone has a 800 x 600 pixel monitor, nothing on the Internet will look good.