Brad	Posted: Jan 1 2007, 04:49 PM
Airline Transport Pilot Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 4,813 Member No.: 1 Joined: 11-May 03 Location: South Carolina	As many of you already know, the new year will be bringing many welcome changes to this community. Up until now we have been fairly quiet about the details, but with the arrival of the new year we think it's time everyone was given a peek at some of the upcoming changes. First and foremost we will be migrating to a new domain that will better reflect our purpose as a flight simulation community. We will unveil the new domain name in the coming months. Second, you will be seeing a new logo soon: And finally, here are a few more planned features to whet your appetite - these have been in the works for the past year or so and will be rolled out individually over the next few months: Migration to IPB 2.x (forum software upgrade) FS Videos to be moved out of the file library (Downloads) and into their own section with an interface much like Google Video and other popular video interfaces that we are all familiar with these days. Optional premium membership program that will allow account upgrades such as ad removal, user profile enhancements, and more. Current features will not be reduced or removed for free accounts. More features will be announced in the coming months. This community has come a long way in the last 3 years, and you have yourselves to thank for that. These changes are being implemented in order to maintain our current progress and further our goal of providing the most enjoyable, informative, and immersive flight simulation community available. Brad and Jon

wyoairbus	Posted: Jan 2 2007, 01:09 AM
Airline Transport Pilot Group: Members Posts: 2,014 Member No.: 8,029 Joined: 21-August 05 Location: Cheyenne, WY	Sounds very cool! I like the new logo and making the videos like google video will be awesome

experimental_pilot	Posted: Jan 2 2007, 01:38 AM
Airline Transport Pilot Group: Members Posts: 3,002 Member No.: 6,758 Joined: 2-May 05 Location: Toronto, ON	Video section is a great idea! Hopefully, Video quality and size won't be messed with though.

Mango	Posted: Jan 2 2007, 02:17 AM
Orville Reincarnate Contributor Moderator Group: Moderator Posts: 9,519 Member No.: 1,863 Joined: 13-September 03 Location: On my six !	Excellent ! Would a own multi player server (for members only of course) be a good idea ?

dolbinau	Posted: Jan 2 2007, 02:20 AM
Cruising at FL120 Download Manager Group: Download Manager Posts: 12,167 Member No.: 3,879 Joined: 27-May 04 Location: Syd, Australia	Great ! Any news on the knowledge base? I remember fox suggested a Wiki a while ago...

SwitchFX	Posted: Jan 2 2007, 03:12 AM
Orville Reincarnate formerly TeleFarsi_Airlines818 Group: Members Posts: 6,680 Member No.: 2,804 Joined: 31-December 03 Location:	Great news! I just saw this, I agree a lot that this forum has progressed in very large steps! I only have a few thoughts no and then that worry me to some extent. ~When we do the forum software upgrade the forum will be down for a good 4 hours. When done will be expect all the topics to be in their order as we left them? Or will each forum's topics be trimmed to zero and all the topic and posts be moved into the search database? ~As far as ad removal goes that's a huge plus for our IE users, but for many of us FireFox users including me have adblock, flashblock, and JSBlock running and no ads show up. I don't mean to intrude on that fact. ~Will the member panel contain a option to put the account into invisible mode when signing in? Instead of having to click the little tick at sign in? ~Not a question but I digg the new logo. Reminds me of an airline logo I've seen before or a travel agency. GOOD WORK! Sorry to add, but on the forum I used to mod on before I stepped down. Paid supporters got to see the forums graveyard and were able to post in the topics as the mods had the ability to do the same thing also. Just and idea. This post has been edited by SwitchFX on Jan 2 2007, 03:19 AM

Ben.	Posted: Jan 2 2007, 06:58 AM
Commercial Pilot formerly phpmekiwi Group: Members Posts: 1,702 Member No.: 7,577 Joined: 22-July 05 Location: YMML	What's the point of having a graveyard if every Tom, Dick and Harry can see it? This post has been edited by Ben. on Jan 2 2007, 07:02 AM

radioactive_ham	Posted: Jan 2 2007, 09:54 AM
Commercial Pilot Group: Members Posts: 1,336 Member No.: 2,984 Joined: 18-January 04 Location: London (EGLL)	this is looking great!! will we still use ore current profiles and nicknames?? or will it all be new?

Chief_Bean	Posted: Jan 2 2007, 09:59 AM
Airline Transport Pilot Group: Members Posts: 4,229 Member No.: 9,108 Joined: 11-November 05 Location: EGTC	QUOTE (radioactive_ham @ Jan 2 2007, 02:54 PM) this is looking great!! will we still use ore current profiles and nicknames?? or will it all be new? I think it will stay They're just migrating to new software

Mango	Posted: Jan 2 2007, 09:59 AM
Orville Reincarnate Contributor Moderator Group: Moderator Posts: 9,519 Member No.: 1,863 Joined: 13-September 03 Location: On my six !	QUOTE (SwitchFX @ Jan 2 2007, 03:12 PM) Sorry to add, but on the forum I used to mod on before I stepped down. Paid supporters got to see the forums graveyard and were able to post in the topics as the mods had the ability to do the same thing also. Just and idea. Say what...?

Brad	Posted: Jan 2 2007, 12:14 PM
Airline Transport Pilot Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 4,813 Member No.: 1 Joined: 11-May 03 Location: South Carolina	QUOTE Would a own multi player server (for members only of course) be a good idea ? This is something we've discussed - we'll give it some more thought. QUOTE Any news on the knowledge base? I remember fox suggested a Wiki a while ago. We will definitely be placing more emphasis on the KB, but a wiki is not currently on the roadmap. QUOTE When we do the forum software upgrade the forum will be down for a good 4 hours. When done will be expect all the topics to be in their order as we left them? Other than looking at a new interface and having more features, you'll not notice anything different with the forum content. We will likely be archiving very old content at some point in the future, but not during this migration. QUOTE Will the member panel contain a option to put the account into invisible mode when signing in? Instead of having to click the little tick at sign in? I believe IPB 2.x adds this feature. QUOTE on the forum I used to mod on before I stepped down. Paid supporters got to see the forums graveyard and were able to post in the topics as the mods had the ability to do the same thing also. Just and idea. There will be private discussion areas for supporters, but I don't forsee the Graveyard being one of them. QUOTE will we still use ore current profiles and nicknames?? or will it all be new? Yes, all forum content (posts, post counts, member titles, etc) will remain unchanged.

3ckpilot	Posted: Jan 2 2007, 02:59 PM
Airline Transport Pilot Group: Members Posts: 4,081 Member No.: 13,059 Joined: 15-August 06 Location: Chicago, IL	What if we are able to see graveyard topics that we created? What will premium membership cost BTW? This post has been edited by 3ckpilot on Jan 2 2007, 03:00 PM

Brad	Posted: Jan 2 2007, 05:05 PM
Airline Transport Pilot Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 4,813 Member No.: 1 Joined: 11-May 03 Location: South Carolina	Graveyard access is not currently in the cards at all. Premium membership will be very reasonable - its main purpose being to merely offset the opportunity costs associated with removing advertisements.

SwitchFX	Posted: Jan 2 2007, 07:11 PM
Orville Reincarnate formerly TeleFarsi_Airlines818 Group: Members Posts: 6,680 Member No.: 2,804 Joined: 31-December 03 Location:	Sounds great, but you forgot to respond to the ads question. I would guess about 65 percent of the users here use firefox. All those ad blocking, flash blocking, and JSblocking extensions just get rid of the ads. I understand that the rest of th majority use IE or Opera. IE doesn't have a adblock feature stock but I have seen and used upgrades for it by 3rd party companies. I'm not sure with opera's browser. What would happen at that point?

3ckpilot	Posted: Jan 2 2007, 09:23 PM
Airline Transport Pilot Group: Members Posts: 4,081 Member No.: 13,059 Joined: 15-August 06 Location: Chicago, IL	Will extended post editing time be part of a paying package (maybe 1 hour for paying and the average 20 minutes for free acounts)?