Attention All Members, Warriors And Others

[Jacuma]

In the course of the next week, actually starting now we will be experiencing timeouts, sluggish forum performance, etc. due to some major changes we are currently putting in place, as some of you know, we will be mirroring the forum at this url http://www.assatashakur.net this long overdue upgrade has been in the making for about 2 years, we will also upgrade the forum from vbulletin 3.65 to 3.70 during this period, we will also have a vblog system integrated into the forum, this will allow more freedom of expression to all Warriors, so please have patience with this process.

If you notice any irregularities on the forum, ie. images not working, features not working or anything that seems abnormal please share them here, please be our eyes for stuff we may miss, in the event you are unable to access the forum, please take that time to visit some of our other sites,

www.thetalkingdrum.com
www.panafrican.tv
www.thedrum.org
www.rbgstreetscholar.com
www.positivelyblack.net
www.handsoffassata.net
www.blackmic.com
www.fuckthepolice.tv
www.ftpmovement.com
www.assatashakur.org
www.assatashakur.net
www.siafudrum.com
www.rbgbandana.com

[Jacuma]

For those who are unaware of this action, just wanted to share how bad them devils want this site down, Attempts At Hacking Our Site Are 365/24/7 this means every single day of every single minute, attempts are being made to bring us down. backing up the site and mirroring it allows us some level of comfort, knowing that if these devils ever get successful, that success will be short lived at best. We were hacked via the Chatroom software last year, which caused about 2 months worth of posts to be deleted, we learned that lesson well. We automatically now back up the site from 2 different locations in addition to 2 different servers, its safe to say we are now officially covering down.. asante sana Im The Truth!!

[Jacuma]

beginning at 12 pm est we will finalize our upgrade, please expect some downtime during this period sunday Jan 20

[Jacuma]

Yes as you can tell most of the upgrade is completed, this includes, new:

Brand New User Picture Galleries & Picture Comments
Brand New Thread Tagging
Brand New Thread Prefixes
Brand New Public Messaging
Brand New Member Customization of Profile Page
Brand New Attachment Viewing Lightbox
Brand New Visitor tracking on profile pages
New & Enhanced Member Profile Page
Enhanced Spam Management
Enhanced Search
Enhanced PM system
and....

Brand New Member Blogging System
The new blog system makes it simple for community members to create their own space within the community. Getting started is as simple as posting the first message (using the same familiar vBulletin editor). There is no lengthy setup process - blog owners are free to personalize their blog at any time by defining a title and a description that will appear at the top of every blog post.

Fast Start
vBulletin Blog makes it simple for community members to create their own space within the community. Getting started is as simple as posting the first message (using the same familiar vBulletin editor). There is no lengthy setup process - blog owners are free to personalise their blog at any time by defining a title and a description that will appear at the top of every blog post.

Fully Featured
It is a feature-rich blog application, with support for fully formatted WYSIWYG posts, attachments, comments, trackbacks and pingbacks, draft posts and categories, as well as seamless integration with the overall vBulletin system.

Blog Home Page
Available via a single click from any vBulletin page, the blog home page aggregates activity from all member blogs into a single page – with information about the most recent and highest rated blog posts, recent comments, a featured blog post (selected by the administrator or at random), full support for browsing posts by date and overall blogging statistics.

Syndication and Subscriptions
Site wide and per-blog RSS feeds allow syndication to external readers, and full support for vBulletin subscriptions enables users to join their favorite blogs and receive regular email updates.

Profile Support
Member blogs are integrated with the vBulletin profile system – profile information is displayed alongside blog posts, and existing profile pages are enhanced with information about blog activity.

Blog Control Panel
The Blog Control Panel empowers members to control every aspect of their blogs, from permission controls (who has access to view and comment on the blog), to full management of blog categories, draft posts, trackbacks/pingbacks and subscriptions. Blog owners also have the ability to moderate comments on their own blog.

As we continue to strive forward you may notice some of your posting missing if so please don't sweat it as all posts posted today were lost in the delicate transition. Those of you who have registered today, regrettably will have to re-register we sincerely apologize for that inconvenience, also if you notice any thing that looks strange and/or different from before please usher all questions and concerns here. We are now armed with the state of the art data backup system, in addition to a mirror site.

Asante Sana!

PS By Sunday we will do a full upgrade of the chatroom....

[Elisa Keisha]

WOW!!! i dont know if i know what all of this means!

[Jacuma]

Browse your profile or mine for more info..

[Jacuma]

Any Comrades who are still having issues with the old forum, you must delete your "cache"

For Firefox/Mozilla
"tools" on your browser
"options'
"check clear data" on firefox/mozilla

For Internet Explorer
"tools"
"internet options"
"general"
"browser history"
"delete"

If after performing these step you still have issues, please submit a support ticket here, again you must be our eyes and ears for ANY forum related issues, asante sana in advance..

[Jacuma]

Good news is the forum is updated and running smoother than expected, the bad news is any posts within the last 24 hours on the old forum have been overwritten by the database, we had two options 1 shut the site down till the mirror changed over, or 2 keep the forum open, we selected the latter, we apologize for any posts that were overwritten, our hands were tied. This site is officially mirrored!!

[G.O.D.F.A.T.H.A.]

I like the blogs, the photo album and the other new additions.

[Draptomania]

Oh, that answers my question then...'scuze me while I delete a thread

[Fenix]

I like the blog feature!

[Elisa Keisha]

this new befriending thing is funny.

and i love the photo album option! and the new profile look

i still dont get what RSS is... i been explained before. i just dont get it. I hope you folks are not seein what i am seein on internet....

[Im The Truth]

Really Simple Syndication or RSS is a way to use content from one place and view it in another place. For example if you are using Firefox and you are on this site click on the lil orange thing on the right on the url bar.

[Elisa Keisha]

Originally Posted by Im The Truth

Really Simple Syndication or RSS is a way to use content from one place and view it in another place. For example if you are using Firefox and you are on this site click on the lil orange thing on the right on the url bar.

ok, and what is it useful for?

[Im The Truth]

It's so you can read text information mainly news or blog updates without having to go to a website for it. Also so others can use your information on their sites as well.