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The forums have been updated to a new version. Let me know if there are any problems.

I believe the session timeout problem has been fixed.

-admin

Thank you Brother. The forum looks great.

What a wonderful new forum, it was worth the wait
Thanks Admin.

so far so good....definitely going to take some getting used to.   :o  <---luv this guy

<-----Gotta luv the made hacker avatar....lol

Hello ADMIN,

Brother, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all of your work. I think that I have more than just an idea about what all is involved in upgrading the forum software.

I'm positive that all of the Moderators and sweet Christians who use Christians Unite will help in any way that you need. This is very exciting, and I hope and pray that this new software will help us continue to glorify and praise God here.

Again, thank you for all of your hard work.

Love in Christ,
Tom

Matthew 6:19-21 NASB  "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.  "But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal;  for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Admin, the forum looks great. Thank you brother, and bless you for all the hard work you did.

Resting in the hands, of the Lord.
Bob

Psalm 29:11 The Lord will give [unyielding and impenetrable] strength to His people; the Lord will bless His people with peace.

W00H00, I just found the quick reply box. ;D

Where is it? I got the wrong one at first.  :o :o :o :o

Brothers and Sisters,

There are all kinds of new things that are really neat. You do have to enable some of them in your personal preferences part of your profile.

YES, the quick reply function is really nice. Some of the new editor functions take nearly all of the confusion out of some of the format commands. As an example, you can just type your message normally, go back, highlight a portion of text you want bold, and hit the bold command key above. It's all automatic, and you don't have to worry about making the command first. The new editor is great.

Love In Christ,
Tom

Galatians 3:11 NASB  Now that no one is justified by the Law before God is evident; for, "THE RIGHTEOUS MAN SHALL LIVE BY FAITH."

In your profile, click on the Look and Layout Preferences.  Use quick reply on topic display. Then in the drop down box Change that to show, on by default.

Oh ok ....  that works pretty neat, too.

The spell Check works pretty neat, too.

YUP even has a spell checker,,,,now we can't make any more 'scueses'

I think that put Kris, out of a job. A job Kris777 I don't think wanted. Okay now, where is the grammer cop? ;D :o :o ;D

Grammer's in her rocky chair.

Greetings, Brothers & Sisters

This is like,,,,,wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IT LOOKS AND ACTS PRETTY OPERATOR FREINDLY

PRAISE JESUS, awsome look and it's just awsome
Good Job, SAINTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

May the Lord Bless thee and Keep thee
Only Always for Jesus
in the love of a brother
ggamble

Wouldn't that be "grammAr"?  :P

Toto, I'm not sure that this is Kansas.... :-\
Did we make a wrong turn somewhere?  :o

Nope, your not in Kansas anymore Toto. ;D  Nope, you made a right turn back home.

remember the spell checker won't work unless we use it :))

Has anyone else had problems, opening new threads? I know a few times I've refreshed and have been kicked off, the forum. I talked yesterday with my ISP, and they told me, it wasn't at my end. Today, I tried for a little over an hour, to get back on the forum.

Resting in the hands, of the Lord.
Bob

I had a problem early this morning, about 5 AM forum time, where I couldn't get in at all for about an hour. Other than that I haven't had any problems at all.

Some people wonder why moderators, have so many posts. Well, I think the answer is clear. Since this forum has been renewed for about 36 hours

Drum roll please.........

Most Time Online

Pastor Roger.......16h 31m
DreamWeaver.....15h 22m
blackeyedpeas.... 15h 7m

Now the regular members......

airIam2worship....10h 17m
2nd Timothy........4h 16m
Willowbirch..........1h 43m
ggamble..............1h 22m
sincereheart.........1h 14m
Butterflies................52m

There you have it.....

I had the same problem PR.

Taaarraaaaa!!!!! Too bad we can't add sound to the posts. Otherwise you would be hearing a drumroll, whistles, applause, and of course a foghorn too!!!

Dreamweaver,

:D  Brother, I did notice the new function that records the amount of time on the forum. However, there are so many new things that I doubt we've found them all yet.

I know that many of us have been excited about getting this new forum software for a long time, and now we have it - THANKS TO ADMIN! I can only speak for myself and say that I was having fun trying to check that everything was working and trying the new things. My conclusion is this software is fast, easy to use, and has all kinds of new features that are really nice.

Reference problems early this morning in getting on or using the forum, I also experienced problems. I checked several things with my firewall logs and determined there was something tying up the CU server. I suspect that it might have been something like spambots trying to harvest email addresses on the forum. Users that have been here any length of time probably know that ADMIN has the system set to deny any robot type device from getting any personal information on a single member here. I know this ties up system resources, and I don't know enough about servers to even guess if there is a way to stop these robot type information harvesters from tying up system resources. I would simply say that I'm happy that ADMIN is determined to protect the private information of users here. If it means delays from time to time, I would still want the private information protected. I know that some of these same things happen to HUGE SERVERS.

I was just thinking about a problem that I reported to ADMIN within the last couple of weeks. I thought that Christians Unite was completely down, but the problem was with a routing server between my ISP and Christians Unite. The problem lasted about 12 hours and had nothing at all to do with the Christians Unite server. I also reported this problem to my ISP and never got an answer back. Many people were using Christians Unite, but I couldn't get to it at all. I just wanted to point out that there are many variables that effect different users in different ways and some users aren't effected at all.

Love In Christ,
Tom

Psalms 139:9-10 NASB  If I take the wings of the dawn, If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea, Even there Your hand will lead me, And Your right hand will lay hold of me.

Hi Guys,

Last night, as well as the night before, all night long, Yahoo's hotjobs spider was crawling the site at the rate of about 25 pages per second, (yes, per second) and requesting the same pages over and over again. The bogged the server down completely >:(, and even necessary server functions, like back-ups, devotional mailings, etc. couldn't be done.

I have finally been able to ban them from the site. I did some searching on Google, and this isn't the first time that Yahoo has launched such attacks. I'm sure it won't be the last.  And they haven't answered my emails.

Ray

Brother Ray, I just want to let you know just how much I appreciate what you have done. I know it must be vary hard to make sure that this forum keeps running smoothly and that our privacy is protected. You have certainly been doing that and I know you will continue to do so.
Let me say thank you, thank you so much..
Your friend and sister in Christ,
Maria   :)

Brother Ray,

I love the new software and want to thank you for your hard work!  You really keep the communication going, for which I am grateful. 


Blessings-

Awww! That was so sweet!  :'(
STOP IT!  :-[

There's no place like home!  :D

OK Toto, what's the deal?   ???

I clicked the heals of my ruby red slippers together and wound up in Oklahoma!   :o

(Small Print:   ;D  )

The ruby reds only work on women! ;D  Lucky for you, you didn't end up in California. ;)  ;D

Eeeeekk!! A nightmare on any street.

And I was born and raised there, till I ended up in Arizona back in 77. ;D But thats after I left Calif. back when I graduated from high school, in 75. ;D

I was stationed in Calif many times from 1970 through 1987.

I was there from 10-18-57 to 1965. when my parent split up, then from 1968 to 6-13-75, when I graduated from highschool in Carson. I worked at the Long Beach Naval station, in the officers club.

Long Beach was one of the worst places to be. Luckily I spent most of my time in Stockton, Alameda and San Diego. I stayed out of San Francisco and Long Beach as much as possible.

The new upgrade format looks good. Why does it seem easier on the eyes?

Havn't used all the features yet, but I am impressed.

Thank you for all the effort put into this.

ollie   :)

*Sniffs* I used to be regular.  Now why does that just not sound like I meant it to?

BTW admin...LOVE IT!!

You might try apple or prune juice with your coffee.

*Takes note* And I should probably lay off the cranberry juice...

Hello Brother Ray,

The new forum software is great, and I'm enjoying it more each day. The comments are the same from everyone I've talked to. It is simply slick, fast, and loaded with new features. Not only that, but everything appears to be much easier to use. It's a keeper, and my appreciation for all of your work is heart-felt.


Love In Christ,
Tom

1 Corinthians 1:9-10 NASB  God is faithful, through whom you were called into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Now I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all agree and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be made complete in the same mind and in the same judgment.

Spell check?   :o



and just for me    :-*


The place looks great and reads nicely  ......thanks again

I was thinking a little of that metamucil in you coffee. If you add enough of it you might need a spoon and have it for lunch, or maybe just dessert. :)

 ;D   ;D  Sister, I'm thinking about 100% prune juice just flavored a little bit with the metamucil. The stuff in that coffee cup would then be thick enough so that he could easily float without flapping his arms.  ;D

Waitaminutehere...you mean to tell that metamucil goes in something?  Well, THAT explains alot...

A gelatin bed of coffee. What a great idea! Now just to patent it.

 ;D ;D

 ;D ;D ;D ;D

;D ;D The only one I could think of that might buy one might be allinall.  ;D

Or some retired Chief Petty Officers.

One of the requirements for becoming a Chief in the Navy is being able to carry a cup of coffee down a ships passageway during heavy seas without spilling a drop.

 :D ROFL Jellied Coffee

Sign me up too!  :D

Yummmmmmmm! I like my coffee that way!  ;D  One question though, what is metamucil? ???

Why is that no suprise to me. ;) ;D ::) :P

Try it out on Allinall first. If Allinall will drink it, he will drink anything. ;D

See above  ;D ;D

Very carefully.   :o :o ;D ;D

How do you get around corners in the gangways? ???

Gangways?? You mean passageways?? All you do is turn.  ;D ;D

I wonder why Ray moved this from the mature section?  ???




 ;D

Because he decided to make that section for read only.

Was that out of self-defense?  :P

Maybe.   ??? ??? ???

I'm thinkin' that "Read Only" means "Mature".... or even "No Sidetrackin'" :-\

 :D

With us, I would make that a bet!

;D

Brothers and Sisters,

Back to a serious note and the subject of this thread, I can't find a single thing that doesn't work perfectly.

The new forum software is fast as greased lightning, and greased lightning is pretty fast.  :D

The new functions are great, and I'm having a hard time deciding which ones I like the most.

That quick reply function is really sharp, and I LIKE IT!

I like the ability to read more than just the last 10 most recent posts. The old software was limited to 10, but this software probably goes to over 50, depending on the length of the posts.

There's also a quick command at the top for reading all replies to your messages and another quick command to read all posts since your last visit.

I don't know if I can describe this properly, but all of the format commands in the reply and compose editor are much easier to use.

The Help System on the old software was tiny and really didn't have a lot of information in it. The Help System on the new software is MASSIVE, well organized, and contains detailed information on nearly everything.

The new software has a spell checker, so that put our CU Spell Checker Police out of business.  :D

The personal preferences for viewing posts, private mail, and just about everything else is greatly expanded with many more choices.

We can have avatars now. YEAH!! By the way, ADMIN has just added a large selection of Christian Avatars to choose from.

There's a "News Box" on the top right that ADMIN can use to notify everyone about important changes or additions.

I love the new Private Mail (PM) functions. You can even set it to give you a pop-up window when someone has sent you a new PM.

In short, the options and features on just about everything are greatly expanded or enhanced, yet the speed of the forum software is MUCH GREATER! So, I think that the new forum software is a BIG WINNER! By the way, the name of the new forum software is SMF - Simple Machines Forum. The name of the old forum software was YABB SE. SMF is really just a name change and is from the same extremely talented group of software designers and coders. SMF was worked on for a long time, and it represents years of effort for a massive upgrade of YABB SE. The ADMIN's of forums all over the world participated with ideas and help for the upgrade.

I WOULD SAY JOB WELL DONE!!! - ESPECIALLY TO OUR ADMIN!!!

Love In Christ,
Tom

Romans 8:37-39 NASB  But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.  For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

I give a second on that and a really big THANK YOU! to go with it.

I agree with all the accolades!  :D

The more you dig, the more goodies you find!  :D

But where is this quick reply I keep hearing about?  ???

Sssshhh! Don't mock the stupid people!  ::)
 :-X

Don't feel bad. I had to ask also. Go to your profile, then click on "Look and Layout Preferences" that is on the left side. Then go to the "Use quick reply on topic display:" box and change it to "show, on by default". Then click on the change profile button. You will then see a quick reply box at the bottom of all the threads.

I make that a third THANK YOU! Admin

Hello Sincereheart,

:D  There are NO stupid people here. We are all intellectuals!

For the quick reply editor, you have to go to your profile settings and turn it on in your forum preferences. There are two settings for on - on continually for every reply and on at the bottom of the forum page so you can choose whether to reply with the regular editor or the quick reply editor. I like them both, but I do prefer the regular editor for longer replies. I think that most or all of the commands are available from the quick reply editor, and I really can't remember the specific reason why I set it to be on only at the bottom of the page. I first had it on continually. Some people would probably be perfectly happy with the quick reply editor on continually, but there is something that made me want a choice each time. I just can't remember, and that decision was less than two day ago.  :D  (Reference TV Advertisement) - Maybe I should have slept in a Holiday Inn Express last night.

Love In Christ,
Tom

Psalms 18:2 NASB  The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

Ooh! There it is! Thank you, thank you, thank you, Pastor Roger! Woo Hoo!  :D
And it's COOL!   ;D

Thank you, Tom!  :D
This is fun!  :D



But now it really is time for that 10-32!  :-X


(I'm still snickering at "intellectuals"!)

You shouldn't snicker at yourself, sister.  :o ;D ;D ;D

Where, I don't see no stupid people posting in this thread.

But to me, the only stupid question is, the one not asked.  So no question is stupid. ;D

isn't a gangway when they make you walk the plank off the ship   ;D

That's a gang plank.

but it could be a gang way too cause the gang makes you walk the plank and that's the gang's way; hence gangway  :-\

 ;) ;) ;D ;D

We are all in agreement ADMIN  did a great job . Thanks again Adimin

AMEN ADMIN the forum looks, and acts great!

Now if only those misbehavin' posters would act right..... *whistles innocently*

Sincereheart,

Sister, right now I would say that we have a core group of really sweet Christians who love JESUS as the focus of their lives. We have some little squabbles from time to time, but the vast majority of what happens here is simply fellowship between Brothers and Sisters in Christ. Sister, it really makes me happy that you are back. You make that core group of sweet Christians stronger. The only thing that would make things better is more sweet Christians joining in with us who Love JESUS as the focus for their lives.

The key to good fellowship is simple and certainly not a secret:  Loving JESUS as a common denominator for all of us. Sister, I was just thinking about JESUS, how much I love him, and how so many other things are really not very important. I'm also thinking about the reality that all of the real Christians here are already united in the Eternal CHURCH which is the BODY OF CHRIST! I've been thinking about this beautiful reality more and more over the last several years, probably because it seems to shut out the problems of the world and put my mind in a positive perspective with JESUS as the focus for everything. These are all thoughts of JOY in JESUS.

I know that all Christians have problems of various types that place burdens on our hearts. Some of the problems involve our own health, the health of family members, and a huge variety of other human problems. I was just thinking about the writing of the Apostle Paul on this subject. The suffering of this current time are not worthy to compare to the Glory that will be in Eternity with JESUS. I know that these problems are real and they effect us in our daily lives, BUT, we have JESUS and all things are different for us with just a few thoughts and prayers. I fail to concentrate on the really important things far too often, and I would say that we all do. Just think about this beautiful old hymn for a few minutes, and everyone will understand exactly what I'm thinking about.


Love In Christ,
Tom

Hebrews 11:1-3 NASB  Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the men of old gained approval. By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.

(http://bestsmileys.com/lol/1.gif) You? Innocent? ;)  (http://bestsmileys.com/lol/1.gif)

AMEN brother!

Dear Admin,

I'm not sure if this is a good way to get ahold of you, but I am wondering if it's ok to post a link to my Christian message board?

~yahssis

Hello yahssis,

Admin doesn't frequent the forum very often. If you look at the left hand column you will find a link to "Christian Classifieds" and another one to "Banner Exchange" or you can click on the "Contact Us" at the bottom of the page.