I must have missed any further discussion of the website and forum ideas, so I spent a couple of hours this afternoon installing an example forum for FPC on my server.

If anyone's interested in seeing what sort of features a modern forum offers FPC members, this would be a good opportunity to get your hands dirty and see how much fun it can be!

The address for registration (you don't need to register if you don't want to post) is :

http://www.audiography.com.au/FPCbb

You don't need to enter email addresses, I've set this up to be a try&play server to see if folks will try something new, and to gauge responses, so feel free to feed back anything you love/hate/want to see working! The more, the merrier!

A couple of things to note about this setup :

* You don't have to use weird usernames, feel free to use your real names, with spaces and so on. It *should* just work.
* You may need to enable "Notify me" when posting to receive reply notifications. I didn't want to overdo the notifications.
* You can subscribe to an entire forum, just a sub forum, or a single post. Entirely up to you.
* There are hundreds of new features compared with the version I was familiar with, so try things out ­ post images, sound files, binaries, listings, patches, whatever.
* The only "posts" so far are in the "Downloading & Installing" forum. All the other forums are empty. Feel free to fill 'em up!
* If you'd like admin access (to see how easy administration is), drop me a private message (PM) via the forum (my username is Cephas Atheos) and I'll add you to the admin list.
* If you don't like particular aspects of the layout, let me know and we can fiddle around with settings. (e.g. I don't like the URL highlighting at the moment, but that might just be me)
* You can obviously really truly use this, it's an unrestricted, live forum. Feel free to use it as such.
* I'm limited because of my hosting contract to around 80M of data. That shouldn't be a problem, but yell if you get any strange messages.

I'll try to stay around for the next couple of days, so if you have any questions, by all means post away or use PM to contact me directly.

I'm working on an example replacement homepage for the FPC site, I'll notify you all when it's ready to try out. I'm keeping it as simple as possible.

Oh, yeah, the cheetah image is just a placeholder I put together, it's not legit, and it would be better to have a proper graphic done. But hopefully "she's" familiar!

I hope to see some of you online! It should be a bit of fun! Cheers,
Pete