New You Forum Facelift - May 2009

[baloo]

As you can now see, we've given the board a bit of a facelift. Here's a list of what's changed:

Forum Style
We've refreshed the forum look and feel to make it a bit more current. The inner workings are still the same so you should not have too many issues getting used to it. If you do find something amiss, please post a note in this thread.

Diary Section Reorganisation
The Diary section has changed around a bit. The new structure is as follows:

Your Cohen's Journey
- - Personal Diaries
- - - - Old Diaries
- - Refeed Diaries
- - Completed Diaries
- - - - Personal Diaries
- - - - Refeed Diaries
- - Life after Refeed - Maintaining the New You!

The Change has been put in place to give us a bit more control over what members can see and what guests can see. The new access rights allows members to see all the Diaries, which hasn't changed from before. What is different now is that Guests will not have access to the ongoing Personal & Refeed Diaries. They will, however, have access to the Completed Diaries.

This change has been put in place to ensure some level of privacy through your journey.But because we want to show potential Cohenites the real life stories of people who have lived the journey we're making the completed diaries visible to the public.

New You Forum Hall of Fame
If you click on the Community Menu Item you'll see a new item called NYF Hall of Fame (HoF). We have had so many successful graduates on this forum that we felt it was time to recognise those who have succeeded on their Journey. There are links to the HoFer's Diary and Profile so people can read the amazing journeys. If/when you have qualified for the HoF but you are not listed, please use the HoF Form on the HoF page to let us know.

Dedicated Cohen's Recipes Forum
Another of the wonderful community generated resources we have are the magnificent Cohen's Recipes we've collected. There is now a dedicated forum just for Recipes. It's a bit different to the other forums in that when you create a new thread in there you will be given an easy to read and complete template to enter your Recipe. It will then be displayed in a simple format. Over time we'll try and move all the recipes in there but it's a manual process so please be patient. In the meantime, if you have submitted recipes in the old forum and format, we'd love your help bringing them over to the new forum.

Photo Gallery
The forum has a built in Photo Gallery that really hasn't been used much. We think it's probably the best place for the Before, During & After photos as it allows people to click to the next photo without having to scroll through a long thread. Every member has the ability to create, manage and upload photos to their own Album. We ask all members to start uploading there images in their Photo Album and not attach them to their posts. To make it easier to find a members Photo Album, we've added a little link under their name that will take you straight to their Album.

The albums can be configured as Public or Private. A Public Album is viewable to all Members. Private Albums are only viewable to people you specifically give access to, plus the forum Moderators & Admins. No albums are viewable by guests at all.

Other members are able to make comments in your Album and the Album will give you the correct BBcodes to insert the image into your diaries if you wish to do so.

I have set up an example Album for myself so please feel free to go and have a look.

So that's it for now. Please have a play around with the new features and let us know if something doesn't seem to quite work as it should.

[Jamanoha]

Whoa... the change is immense, but I like it! Well done

[carrieanne_c]

Great Ideas!

[yeti]

I absolutely LOVE the new forum! As a designer, I find it much more aesthetically pleasing. Great one guys, thank you for all your hard work.

[Mette]

Shiny! I like it!
Thanks guys for all your hard work!

[Rach77]

Well done to all involved. Everything is great. Love it.

Rach

[r a b z i]

i love the new face lift.. it looks gr8!!

[Jenna]

Looks fantastic! Loving the changes, great job!

Thanks for all the hard work put into making the forum better and more streamlined for us!

[moe]

Brilliant! An effective make over! Thanks heaps.

[Miss]

Awesome changes, just have one question is it possible to let a visitor view our personal diary and photos, as this is how my sister has been keeping tabs on my progress..... I think she has signed in as BeeBee
Look forward to hearing from you
Cheers
Melissa

[baloo]

Hi Miss,

We've decided to lock down diaries from the guests and others trawling the sites. While some people are happy for the world to know and read about their progress, we have had a few people asking for the diaries to be removed or hidden due to people reading about their trials. Not necessarily the weight loss trials, but when people have a slight whinge at a family member not being supportive, or a "fat" friend who seems to want to sabotage, those comments have come back to hurt people.

So in light of all that, we decided to lock down to members only. Membership is free and we don't restrict membership so your sister, now that she is registered, should be able to see your diary.

[Miss]

Awesome, thanks for replying to me Baloo!!
Cheers
Melissa

[RosemaryFNQ]

Can anyone explain what happened to all the recipes that were on the forum. It seems that they all disappeared when the forum was updated and now we have to add them in the new section. Is this right?

I always found those recipes a great help and if they have to be added in again I would like to spend some time typing some up but I don't have where they originally were submitted and by whom. I wouldn't want to upset anyone by them thinking that I am taking claim to them. LOL

thanks for any replies.
Rosemary

[RosemaryFNQ]

I thought I would "bump" this as I have not had any replies. Can anyone help.

[shell]

They are in the "Cohens Recipe's" thread-
http://newyouforum.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=101
Shell

[RosemaryFNQ]

Thanks Shell but I think they are only the new ones. I used to look up a lot of old ones, am I just not reading this properly??

Rosemary

[LeeV]

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