WELCOME TO THE END OF THE WORLD
Oh, but not really! Welcome to the very sweeping big changes that is going to be happening to the forum. Lots of positive things will happen BUT FIRST this place needed some very important organization (and a reason to look at it for a couple of seconds!)
Let's take a look at the menu, shall we?
Round 1: Sweep, revitalize, and polish. The boring and artsy parts.
1. [Circuitfry] Rinse out old dead/useless topics. / Don't remove the spam thread.
2. [PHPony] Organize the Events page to move dead projects to the bottom.
3. [Circuitfry] ~Ten more moderators. DONE.
4. [Circuitfry, PHPony, Rye, Kibbie] Tumblr integration/music news blog
5. [Kibbie, Rye, PHPony] New forum themes. Default is girly, Alternate is stealth mode.
6. [PHPony] Auto-lock after 45 days no new posts, allow exceptions.
7. [Circuitfry] Forum on music gear.
Round 2: Small forum enhancements.
1. [PHPony] Spoiler tags
2. [PHPony] "Go to first post in topic since your last post" button
3. [PHPony] Notification for new PMs (already have it???) and topic responses (subscribe??).
4. [PHPony] Customizable titles + Musician specialty list (vocals/instrument/genre)
5. [Circuitfry] Tutor presence. (Coming soon)
6. [PHPony] Karma system?
7. [Circuitfry] Sample pack events. (Coming soon)
8. [PHPony] Minimum character amount.
Round 3: Big website enhancements.
1. [PHPony, maybe sci] Critique voting system / Chanboard style critique section.
2. [Everyone] Music production wiki
3. [PHPony, Rye] Video/radio chat/IRC ** Don't get blocked at work sites lol
4. [sci, Circuitfry] Work with sci: facelift for toastbeard maybe? or MLR equivalent?
Round 4: Big community enhancements.
1. [Circuitfry] Gaming/IRL events besides Cons
2. [Circuitfry, PHPony, others] More integration with partnering websites
3. [Circuitfry] More global community events!
So ROUND ONE IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW and I hope people aren't freaking out too bad over it!
Just want everyone to know that this forum's layout is NOT final, suggestions ARE welcome, things WILL be okay, everyone CAN chill and relax!
Only happy improvement things will follow after this. All of this right now is just organization and rearranging.