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    New SWFans.Net Forums Features!

    I am pleased to announce that over the last few weeks I have been working to bring even more new features to our site, and my efforts have been successful with the help of some guinea pigs to help me test them out and ask me all the right questions and even provide me with some of the right answers.

    For the last week or so I have had several Moderators and RolePlaying Group Moderators assisting me in an effort to make our community even better than it was, and in trying to reach that goal I believe we have succeeded. Some of these new features will be very obvious over the next half an hour or so as I start making some small changes to the page headers so that you can see links to the biggest of the new features:

    A Forum Gallery

    Some of the other features that have been added are not so easily noticed without some exploration or maybe just some time spent on the Forums, knowing what different limitations and things are currently available.

    If you look at the link to the Forum Gallery that I just posted you can see that it is a place where images can be uploaded here at SWFans.Net, but as usual with anything new and exciting there are a few catches. This is no different. There is a catch to get full functionality out of all of the new features including the Forum Gallery.

    A new program has been implemented that will allow any registered member of our community to gain full access to all the new features added. It is what is now called the “SWFans.Net Supporter” program.

    The Supporter Program consists of an annual subscription service. A user contributes $10 U.S. to assist SWFans.Net Forum with its hosting and software expenses and in return that contributor is rewarded with a set of new features currently including 10 listed items and a couple of others not publicly listed.

    To view the full list of additional features please follow this link to the:

    Supporter Account Information and Purchase Page

    Currently there are two purchase options available on that page. One is the Supporter Account Upgrade and the other is the Supporter Exclusive Forums Custom Title change. For more information please see the detailed descriptions of each feature on the information page I just linked you to.

    Note: When upgrading to a Supporter account you receive a custom title of your own choosing for your account, to be displayed in the supporter exclusive forums included in the single fee for upgrading.
    Please feel free to ask questions, but I do request that you read the Information page before doing so because it will contain answers to many of the questions one may have.

    Feedback of any kind is also allowed.

    Currently a few of the test users have already made their contribution and become Official “Supporters”. You might notice them posting around on the forums with a new Supporter Exclusive custom title image under their username that all supporters get, as part of the package.

    Thanks for your time and your contributions to our site, whether they be monetarily or even just in our site’s content.

    SWFans.Net

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    Originally posted by Master Yoghurt
    It is important to note; non subscribing members don't lose any existing forum features
    From Yog in the BO thread of the same name.

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    And now the Portal Page also includes a Random Image displayed on it from the Forum Gallery.

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    The "Recent Gallery Image" hack for the main forums index that I mentioned in the announcement is almost complete, and is already in place. I'm hoping to tweak it just a little bit soon.

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    This just keeps getting better and better!

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    No questions? Wow! The info page must be good then.


    Here is a list of the Supporter members as of now:

    SWFans.Net
    Marcus Elessar
    Master Yoghurt
    Morgan Evanar
    AmazonBabe
    Agent Charley
    Silus Xilarian
    Jinn Fizz
    Pierce Tondry
    Evil Hobgoblin
    Zasz Grimm
    Dasquian Belargic
    Ryla Relvinian
    DarthHera
    Daiquiri Van-Derveld
    s'Ilancy
    Taylor Millard
    Figrin D'an
    Terran Starek
    Lilaena De'Ville
    ReaperFett
    Navaria Tarkin
    Eve
    Dru
    Shanaria Fabool
    JMK
    Nikkiah Wintermoon
    Slayn Cloak
    Xyver Khale
    Ishan Shade
    Darth Viscera
    Shawn
    Crystal
    Kitty McQuade
    Khendon Sevon
    Natia Elessar
    Mu Satach
    Blade Ice
    Maal Lah
    Alana Stormcloud
    Alex
    Kyle Raiden
    Cyrel Annat
    Jedi Master Leia Solo
    Shade Magus
    Cardinal Aiyalin
    Dae Jinn

    Thanks for becoming SWFans.Net Supporters!

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    I sent ya two payments, ogre.

    One for Zasz and one for Dasquian.

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    Greedy? I'm supporting the board and giving money up, how is that greedy? :-p

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    Is it possible to not have the gallery features at the bottom of the portal and forums pages?

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    Multiple Gallery images do not appear at the bottom of the Portal page in any style. However, the images do appear on the main forum index in all styles except the two text based ones. So, you could use the text based styles to not have the gallery images on the main forum index.

    In another week or so the Gallery images that appear on the Main Forum Index will be reduced to a count of 4 images only.

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    Righto. I'd just rather not have to scroll past all those images in order to check out whose online and all the other features down there, but...

    Originally posted by SWFans.Net
    In another week or so the Gallery images that appear on the Main Forum Index will be reduced to a count of 4 images only.
    ...that will be much better.

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    Cool.

    We thought the newness factor of the Gallery would be good to promote by having additional images on the main forum index. Once the newness factor is gone we'll reduce the promotion and lower the image count.

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    Within the next few weeks I should be adding somewhere in the vicinity of 5 new Supporter Exclusive style sets. Forum style sets that only "Supporters" can use or see.

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    That will be awesome.

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    Here are some Previews of the first three of the Supporter Exclusive Styles. Click the thumbs for larger versions.


    Slicer - Imperial

    Slicer - Alliance

    Deathstar

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    Say, I just got some money in a very very late birthday card (curse the school's mail system) and I was wondering; is Paypal the ONLY way to pay you the ten dollars for supporter features?

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    Originally posted by Zeke
    Say, I just got some money in a very very late birthday card (curse the school's mail system) and I was wondering; is Paypal the ONLY way to pay you the ten dollars for supporter features?
    Send me a PM, and we can discuss that there.

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    Here is another Supporter Exclusive style, recently completed:


    Endor

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    Here is another Supporter Exclusive style, recently completed:


    Obi-Skin

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