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posted January 17, 2011 06:24 PM            

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I'm changing things up here--nothing major in the "look' of the site--but what would you Knowflakes like to see? I have three main goals this year:

1. To get more postings in the slower Forums by attracting people with those specific interests.

2. Figuring out how to turn off that private function on Basic Astrology and get it booming.

3. Fix the internal search engine, so we can search a single Forum or all Forums by keyword(s) and/or Username.

What do ya'll think about putting Forums in broader categories? And if so, how would you categorize them? I can do categories by just pushing a few buttons. Or should I leave the Forums alone and keep them as they are?

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posted January 17, 2011 11:02 PM            

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I am so rooting for #3 Randall.
& love the idea of broader categories,

Divination
-Astrology 2.0
-Astrology
-Basic Astrology
-Lexigram Magic
-Personal Readings
-Through the Looking Glass
-While The Soul Slumbers

Community
-For Yellow Wax And The Ants
-Know Two Are Alike
-LL Central 2.0
-LL Central
-Teen Spirit

Occult/New Age
-Astral Realms
-For The Pilgrim's Progress
-Oranges And Hyacinths
-Uni-versal Codes

Personal Growth
-Divine Diversities
-Health & Healing
-Labors of Love
-Soul Unions
-Sweet Peas in the Rain

Linda Goodman
-Heathcliffe's Corner
-Linda's Life
-The OOber Galaxy

Current Events
-Gaia's Garden
-Global Unity 2.0
-Global Unity

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posted January 17, 2011 11:09 PM            

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I also think #3 would be a HUGE help.

Lonake's thing with sub-forums sounds really good too, it would organize things a bit.

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posted January 17, 2011 11:13 PM            

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#3 for sure...it would make things a lot easier if we wanted to search for threads by a certain user or category

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posted January 17, 2011 11:13 PM            

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New forum software. Perhaps run the forums (the new one and this one) concurrently since you're intent on not losing the past. SMF is a free forum software, and you'd probably be pretty psyched about the capabilities.

If it were me, I'd add some pages. If you're interested in doing a blog, that could be one of them. It might also be cool to set up an Amazon store or something filled with book recommendations and so forth.

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posted January 17, 2011 11:24 PM            

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A YouTube account

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posted January 17, 2011 11:25 PM            

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Originally posted by Lonake:
A YouTube account

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when i read that the first thing i thought of was road warrior, LOL

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posted January 17, 2011 11:30 PM            

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Rants & raves

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posted January 17, 2011 11:50 PM            

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AG that would be totally ACE!

Would that include avatars?

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posted January 18, 2011 12:09 AM            

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http://www.simplemachines.org/about/features.php

Yes

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posted January 18, 2011 12:47 AM            

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There are a lot of free discussion boards. Maybe it's just me, but that one seems kind of sterile. Plus, I see no reason to run two unless planning an eventual migration to the other, and I don't plan on discarding ours. Too much history. Anyone can start a discussion board. It's our history that makes Lindaland a family.

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posted January 18, 2011 12:53 AM            

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if not that other discussion board (not that i entirely understood what AG had suggested, lol) but could we have avatars on LL as someone else had mentioned before?

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posted January 18, 2011 01:07 AM            

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It might be doable to add avatars here.

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posted January 18, 2011 01:08 AM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
It might be doable to add avatars here.

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sweet!! *throws hands up in the air excitedly*

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posted January 18, 2011 02:51 AM            

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How about a ClustR Map Please, please, please.
http://www.clustrmaps.com/

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posted January 18, 2011 04:07 AM            

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....an ignore button

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posted January 18, 2011 04:13 AM            

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and while I'm on a roll

- signatures visible/signatures invisible

would be nice

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posted January 18, 2011 05:00 AM            

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Avatars will be nice.

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posted January 18, 2011 09:55 AM            

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I was thinking that people who had an expertise or an interest could share it.
It could be in a "class" format.
For example,someone could offer to teach about something they knew.
For me,I would like to offer a "discussion group" on Out of Body Experiences.
I see at as an ongoing discussion that people could participate in daily,or on an ongoing basis.
We could learn from each other.
I would ,also,like to offer my expertise in raw foods for anyone who would like to lose weight.
I could ,also,see an ongoing discussion about a topic such as Kundalini Yoga.
We could share our experiences and help each other.

I could see a Forum with ongoing teaching /learning topics such as this.
It could be called "On Going Learning"
or something that could show the nature of it to people who wanted to get involved.

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posted January 18, 2011 10:05 AM            

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I don't think any changes are possible on the current platform. Not the search engine fix, not adding avatars, nor adding an ignore button. The only way to make an effective change is to change software. The history is moot, but I think you want it for the traffic you think it brings. That's why I suggested running them concurrently for awhile.

I view this as another MySpace versus Facebook thing. You could have it so much better. You thought Facebook was sterile, too. I don't know if I need to tell you how much the appearance of that board can be modified.

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posted January 18, 2011 10:23 AM            

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Nah, I never used the term sterile with FB. I just liked the creativity of MS. I can upgrade to the latest UBB and have all of the things mentioned. I would do that before I'd change to a whole different software and abandon a decade of history.

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posted January 18, 2011 10:31 AM            

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Please--I don't want to learn anything new on the computer

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posted January 18, 2011 10:34 AM            

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How can history be a moot point, AG? That's what makes Lindaland well, um, Lindaland! Ten years of posts has nothing to do with traffic. It has to do with the personality of the site. There's a fix for the search engine. And a hack for avatars (if I can find it). I don't think an ignore button is possible, though. I'm also thinking of adding a bunch more smilies in the system.

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posted January 18, 2011 10:38 AM            

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AG that would mean losing ten years of history and for what? The sake of a new software forum? That's a big no no from me.I love how LL is. A few changes here and there are fine.

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posted January 18, 2011 10:44 AM            

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It used to wrench my heart having to prune the site and choosing which ones to lose forever (prior to moving to a server with virtually unlimited space). From Ra's dream analyses to YIVY's lexigrams, Lindaland has a rich history that I am not going to discard just for a few extra perks like an ignore button...not to mention all of the more recent and current contributions.

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