The often mentioned upgrade to SMF 1.1 *should* take place at some point this week. However, it will be taking place in the wee hours of some morning, so most visitors shouldn't be inconvenienced when it comes to accessing the forum. And an announcement will be made in this topic prior to the upgrade taking place so that most people won't be too surprised to find that the forum is offline.
Once the upgrade has been completed, a few of the forum's features will be a bit different and a few new ones will be added. Everything will be explained in full at a later time, but some of the things to look forward to are:
- new themes
- improved general searching
- the ability to create personal messages buddy lists
- the ability to search personal messages
- the ability to attach images within posts (rather than simply at the end)
- and choosing separate smiley sets
(The admins/mods will also have a whole slew of new moderation tools - but we'll be the only ones having fun with those.
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