Before we get into the details of what you can expect, we want to thank you for coming to check us out! We hope our new forums provide you with a superior community experience for years to come.

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When you first enter our new forums, you'll land at the Discussions page. This is the launch page for each of our forums. You can navigate to whichever section interests you by clicking on its _title_.

You can also scroll down to the bottom to see who's online, view a list of the forum's most active members, or see some interesting forum statistics, such as the most popular thread and the total number of posts or threads, as well as our newest member.

When you first enter a discussion, you'll see that it's sorted newest to oldest by default. But you can easily change this by clicking on the Sort Posts drop-down if you prefer to read them from oldest to newest.

Our forum software comes with built-in emoticons that you can use to _embed_ smilies in the content of your messages and at the top near the subject of the message.

Looks like there will be exciting days ahead! We hope this gives you an idea of what's new in our forum software. The best way to check it out is to hop into the forum and go to it. Spend some time using the new software. We bet you'll warm up to it pretty quickly.

We're really excited about this release. We'll be able to begin growing our communities with new sections, more features, and a solidoverall experience. Thanks so much for joining us, and we look forward to seeing you in our forums for many years to come!

Warmest Regards,
Daniel Sendecki