website news

I've been hard at work adding some new features to the website. In no particular order:

- Advanced user profiles with social network integration. Are you on Facebook, Twitter, LiveJournal, or another social network? Let us know by adding them to your user profile. Want to see what they look like with an existing setup? Here's my user profile as a sample.

- Buddylists. What the name implies. Users on the site can now become "buddies". just click on a user's name and then click the the link that reads, "become this user's buddy".

- Private messages. With so much email being caught by spam filters these days, insure that your messages don't get filtered. Go to the message center to send a private, secure message to another user on this website.

That's all I have for now, but more changes are on the way. Watch this website for more details!

I just completed an upgrade of the SABA website to Drupal version 6. Most of the upgrade went well, and I wanted to give a brief list of major changes:

- I updated the voting system. Users can now vote on posts right from the front page, as well as comments made on posts.

- I blocked about 400 spammers who signed up here. If I accidentally blocked your account (you won't be able to log in if I did), please contact us and let us know what your account name is, and I'll fix it.

- I added better captchas around the site, to try and keep spammers from registering.

- Many many "under the hood" fixes, which should make the site faster and more responsive.

Enjoy!

-- Doug