Clann Alba Forums Blog

As many of you may already be aware, the Clann Alba Forums were recently upgraded to the latest version of the vBulletin forum software, 3.7.0 Beta 5.

This upgrade into the latest branch of the forum software necessitated the removal of the vBlogetin blogging script we had used for a few months.  Since there were very few members that were actually blogging, it was felt the removal would not make too great an impact on the forums.

However it was convenient to have a place to keep our members and guests aware of what is happening and what is being planned for the forums, without the information being lost in forum posts and threads.

Hence the decision to set up this Clann Alba Forums Blog.

The new forum software has several major changes, but they all seem to be changes that the majority of our current members are not necessarily interested in.  The ability to set up your own member’s profile with a customized look doesn’t seem to be the type of thing our members will appreciate or use.

There is one interesting change in the software and we have enabled it for our members to use.  You will now notice, at the bottom of each thread, there are four small social bookmarking icons.  Digg, Del.icio.us, Stumbleupon and Google are all available for members to click on, to save individual threads to the social bookmarking sites they like to use.

If you use social bookmarking, we encourage you to consider bookmarking the more educational threads, as that will make the threads more widely available to others.  This will, hopefully, increase traffic and registrations on the forums.

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