Earlier this morning, we upgraded the forum software to the latest beta release of the new vBulletin 3.7.0 branch. This upgrade is actually monstrous, however we're questioning how many of the newly added features our members will actually use.
The first new option is one that can help increase traffic to the forum. It allows threads to be added to the more popular social bookmarking sites.
Each of you will be familiar with the Favorites or Bookmarks option in your browser. This allows you to bookmark a site and return to it later.
How many of you are aware you can also bookmark sites in a bookmark, or favorites file that is on the Web? Instead of ending up with a huge bookmark file in your browser, there are now Web bookmarking sites, where you can save pages and files. Do you Digg?
Digg is one of the bookmarking sites. If you bookmark a page to Digg, you are Digg'ing the page. And your Digg bookmark is available for other Digg'ers to see, as well. If someone else sees a page you've saved to Digg and they enjoy the page as well, then they will also Digg the page. How many of you have visited a Web page that will have a small badge saying the page has X number of Diggs?
If you look below this thread, there is now a new set of icons appearing there. One for Digg, one for del.icio.us, one for Stumbleupon and one for Google. (Click on the attached image to view these icons.)
So if any of you use the social bookmarking sites and see a thread here that you don't want to lose, or perhaps want others to see, then just click on the icon of your choice.
I will warn you - it is easy to hit one of the social bookmarking sites, select a category and then lose several hours as you are looking at pages that others have bookmarked. We're not going to be held responsible for you losing sleep or being late to work.
The first new option is one that can help increase traffic to the forum. It allows threads to be added to the more popular social bookmarking sites.
Each of you will be familiar with the Favorites or Bookmarks option in your browser. This allows you to bookmark a site and return to it later.
How many of you are aware you can also bookmark sites in a bookmark, or favorites file that is on the Web? Instead of ending up with a huge bookmark file in your browser, there are now Web bookmarking sites, where you can save pages and files. Do you Digg?
Digg is one of the bookmarking sites. If you bookmark a page to Digg, you are Digg'ing the page. And your Digg bookmark is available for other Digg'ers to see, as well. If someone else sees a page you've saved to Digg and they enjoy the page as well, then they will also Digg the page. How many of you have visited a Web page that will have a small badge saying the page has X number of Diggs?
If you look below this thread, there is now a new set of icons appearing there. One for Digg, one for del.icio.us, one for Stumbleupon and one for Google. (Click on the attached image to view these icons.)
So if any of you use the social bookmarking sites and see a thread here that you don't want to lose, or perhaps want others to see, then just click on the icon of your choice.
I will warn you - it is easy to hit one of the social bookmarking sites, select a category and then lose several hours as you are looking at pages that others have bookmarked. We're not going to be held responsible for you losing sleep or being late to work.