Post edited 3:49 pm – July 6, 2009 by danhauk
What's up everybody? So here's the deal.
We've got a new site design with added features like news submission. However, at the current time it's disabled because the update didn't quite go as smoothly as I was thinking it would. Something got screwed up between testing the feature on the beta version and releasing it on the full version. Once that's all worked out I will let you know.
**EDIT**
News submission is now up and running. Be sure to check it out and use it! You do have to be logged in to submit news, so keep that in mind.
Also, I apologize to those who signed up for the forums but hadn't signed up for the main site on the previous version. You have to sign up again. They were separate databases (which was a horrible idea, I know) and only the database for users on the main site was kept. And since they were separate databases and I'm not too comfortable messing with that stuff, all the posts are gone 
Sorry for the inconvenience. Things aren't quite how I was hoping.
Besides all that, how does it look? I really like the design, and once the new features are up and running it will be awesome. I also added more forum integration with the rest of the site. It just seemed too disconnected from each other in my opinion. But now the main site can pull from the forums and display on the home page, as well as the forum discussion from each episode.
And on my end things will be a lot easier. Instead of having to copy and paste thumbnails and episode descriptions into multiple places (sidebar, episode list, etc.) it will be automatic. So I just have to write everything once and it will pull it directly from the main episode post. I'm pretty excited for that.
Another awesome feature is RSS feeds for the forums. That way you don't necessarily have to come to the forum to check out what you may have missed. You can either subscribe to a group of forums (General Topics, Show Discussion) or subscribe to the entire forum. The links are on the forum home page.
Be sure to keep an eye out for the first episode after the hiatus in a couple days! We filmed this weekend and will be getting that out shortly, with some pretty big news if you haven't heard already.
Once again, sorry for any inconvenience, and please let us know how you like it. There still may be a few kinks to work out so be patient. But if you find anything quirky, don't hesitate to contact us about it so it can be fixed ASAP.
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