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- Jan 26, 2012
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Hi everyone,
I shut down the forum for a few hours today to work with a coder on installing and optimizing software that will help improve our search engine ranking. Most of these changes will be on the back end but you might notice a couple changes.
1) URLs: They use a slightly different format now but all of the old ones will redirect to the new format without any issues.
2) The THANKS system: Ok, here's the big change. We've all used the THANKS system for a while and it's great but now we have a much more efficient system in terms of finding quality posts. In order to enable this I had to disable both the THANKS system and the reputation system. This means that no one will have little green dots after their username
You also shouldn't look look in your User Control Panel anymore for reputation received.
We are using a Likes system now. When someone likes your post you will receive a notification just like you would when someone private messages you. By going to anyone's profile you may see how many Likes that member has given and received, and the number of Likes received is displayed when you make a post.
The biggest change in this new system is the tree structure of the Likes. For example when you go to this thread you will see a heart button on the top right-hand side and when you click it you can browse through all of the likes given in the thread as well as preview the post. For threads that become more than 2-3 pages this will help you quickly locate the most liked posts which are most likely to be the highest quality.
Of course there are bound to be some issues here and there but right now there are no major ones. If you find a problem please let us know in this thread. Like I said earlier most of the changes are on the back end of the site and not visible but should help us out greatly.
MHB Staff
I shut down the forum for a few hours today to work with a coder on installing and optimizing software that will help improve our search engine ranking. Most of these changes will be on the back end but you might notice a couple changes.
1) URLs: They use a slightly different format now but all of the old ones will redirect to the new format without any issues.
2) The THANKS system: Ok, here's the big change. We've all used the THANKS system for a while and it's great but now we have a much more efficient system in terms of finding quality posts. In order to enable this I had to disable both the THANKS system and the reputation system. This means that no one will have little green dots after their username
We are using a Likes system now. When someone likes your post you will receive a notification just like you would when someone private messages you. By going to anyone's profile you may see how many Likes that member has given and received, and the number of Likes received is displayed when you make a post.
The biggest change in this new system is the tree structure of the Likes. For example when you go to this thread you will see a heart button on the top right-hand side and when you click it you can browse through all of the likes given in the thread as well as preview the post. For threads that become more than 2-3 pages this will help you quickly locate the most liked posts which are most likely to be the highest quality.

Of course there are bound to be some issues here and there but right now there are no major ones. If you find a problem please let us know in this thread. Like I said earlier most of the changes are on the back end of the site and not visible but should help us out greatly.
MHB Staff