Welcome back, the Wrox, p2p.wrox.com programmer to programmer forums are back up and open for questions. Here's a short list of some of the key new features this version of the forums adds:

Here's a short list of the new features in this version of the forums:

• RSS Feeds for each forum
• New subscription types: daily digests and weekly digests
• WYSIWYG Editor
• Improved spam prevention (invisible to user unless you are a spammer)
• Special user groups and identification for Wrox authors, technical editors, and staff
• Authors, technical editors, and staff can add profile photos, avatars
  • Authors: your book covers make great avatars
• Authors, technical editors, and staff can post attachments
  • Think of this for code samples, screen shots
• Click the "Thank you" button to thank a user for a useful post
• Thread ratings - give a thread 1-5 stars to rate it
• Better tracking and recognition of participation based not just on posts but also on thank you's, thread ratings, thread views and more. Watch for us to come up with ways to thank and recognize our most valuable contributors
• Social bookmarking links for Digg, del.icio.us, and others
• Calendar of events - for staff and members to keep a calendar of user group meetings, programmer conferences, and so on
• Polls - any member can post a poll allowing other members to vote on their question
• Advertising off for logged in users
• Nested subforums for topics with many categories
• Book forums feature book cover and links to book and code pages
• Better forum navigation, less page refresh, Ajax features for search, threads, etc
• Code syntax code coloring - use the "highlight" tag along with the right language name to syntax color code your code
• Similar threads - automatic listing of up to 5 related threads after each thread
• Friendly URLs
• Pages that aren't found will redirect to the forum search page instead of a "not found" error
• Welcome headers show guests a special encouragement to join and other members encouragement to post more, thanks for posts, or other uniquely tailored messages

Returning users will find a few missing and changed items to be aware of:

• No server-side spell checking. Use either the built in FireFox Spell check or add IE Spell Add-in to Intenet Explorer
• Double check your profile, some links and formatting in profiles may break from the old forums to new. Also, if you want your birthday in your profile, we deleted them all, add it back in. Check your timezone.
• Temporarily, code that's posted without a "code" tag will lose it's indenting. We highly recommend you use the code tag for code anyway but we will change the code display of code outside "code" tags to preserve leading whitespace

We'll be listening for bugs you discover of course. Enjoy the new forums.

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Jim Minatel
Associate Publisher, WROX - A Wiley Brand
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