Forums have been upgraded, please read.

[Jahnava Nitai Das]

We just finished changing the forums over to a new software. The upgrade took a lot longer than we planned. I'm sorry for the inconvenience everyone faced with the site not being accessible for the last 24 hours.

There are a whole lot of new features that you will find very useful. I will mention a few of them in this thread as I get time. For now here are a couple:

1) Hare Krishna Live Radio - Click the Radio link in the upper menu bar and you can choose between 10 Hare Krishna radio stations to listen to as you browse the forums. Some of these stations will have live classes/kirtans depending on the time of the day.

2) Personal Messages have now been activated so all registered members can communicate with each other personally and privately. This should not be used for sending spam or for advertising your websites (you may use the recommended websites forum for that). If anyone receives unsolicted spam email, please send me a PM with details.

3) Instant Messenger - You can now send an instant message to anyone who is online, and it will pop up live in their present browser window. Again, this may not be used for anytime of unsolicitated advertising. Any violation of this will be dealt with strictly.

4) Special WYSIWYG message editor for registered users - All registered users will have access to a message editor just like Microsoft Word, where you can easily edit your text, add color, change font attributes, insert pictures, etc. Guests will only have access to the standard editor.

5) Quick Reply - all registered users will have a quick reply box at the end of every thread so they can instantly reply without having to load another page. Guests will have to reply through the old method of clicking on the reply button and being taken to the reply page.

6) Instantly edit your message without having to reload the page. Using new web technology you can edit your messages without having to reload them. Also on the forum threads list, you can edit your thread title by double clicking the box the title is in without having to load another page. You will be able to change the thread title just like you rename files in Microsoft Windows.

7) Download thread as PDF - Under thread options you will be able to download any thread as a pdf file for offline reading or printing.

There are many other changes, and I will try to list more here as I get time.

Please report any bugs or problems you experience in this thread, and I will try to sort them out.

[Jahnava Nitai Das]

Two sets of information were not able to be imported into the new software. These are the page views for each thread, and users' personal avatars. You can reupload your avatar in your control panel (upper left hand link), or you can choose from the 40 avatars that we have added as common avatars.