Some features are really cool. For example,

1. You can send multiple private messages (upto 5 folks) but you got remember all their names. Or have a buddy list and select from that. This really helps when you have to send PMs to hundreds of folks for a TONC invite.

2. 200 PMs is really cool. 60 sometimes is a little less, especially when you send a long post to a guy who has maxed his PMs out. It is particularly irritating when you have written a long pm and clicked send, only to see that stupid message of maxout and your message is suddenly lost.

3. The little chat window is cool (on the left hand side). Then you have the users who are online.

4. Ofcourse, there are several new features that still need to be explored.

Complaints (I am a bad guy).
1. The colour contrast is kind of irritating. Everything is in light colour in this new board. Seems very uncolourful to me.

2. Don't know why they give the cookie information to the user. What will most ninjas do with it anyways?

You can switch to a layout with a black background (select ubbthreads-dark on the bottom of the page), but it still looks a bit messy. I suppose Mig will still do some tweaking. I kind of liked the layout of the old forum, very clear and elegant, I hope it's possible to get something similar. Otherwise the new features are nice.

Is the member number not shown with the posts anymore? I can only see it in the profile now. Also, my rank is suddenly given as "Member", although the post count is still at 3621. One more little thing, the avatars seem to be enlarged, which looks a bit strange.

edit: ah, now that I made a post my rank is shown as Ninja again.

Yeah, I agree with littlefish here, in that, I definitely liked the overall layout of the previous ChessNinja Message Board *much* better!

However, maybe, after all of this "tweaking" is done to this new Message Board, we will be able to, hopefully, have a new Board that has a similar look to the previous Board.

Other than that, yes, I very much like the new features on this new Message Board, *especially* this new live chat "shout box!"


Chess Fan

At last: custom titles! If only they had come around before being a "Queen" got into my head in a more or less foundational and eternal way.

Are non-moderators allowed to delete their own posts now? Sometimes we get tired of clearing away the threads rondino accidentally posts in the night.

And do we have Off-topic polling?

I don't think non-mods can set their own custom titles, which means you should make them up for us :P

Hey yes, I used to be Kitty Cat Ninja. Actually I would prefer Her Royal Highness Fomer-Mod Olympian Chess Ninja.

Not sure how or if I can edit another user's profile. Maybe admin status is required.

Why am I not invisible anymore? How doyou make yourself invisible?

Under "My Stuff" select "Preferences." Then click the button for "Hide from Who's Online."

The old avatars were, I forget, but something like 50x50. The new ones are 80x80, so they took your old one and stretched it out to a larger size, which always results in a loss of quality.

I've already fixed that on mine. I simply took the same photo, and made an 80x80 avatar. I think I cropped it almost identically to the old avatar, but since it's no longer stretched, it no longer looks as blurry.