What is so good about Premium, anyway?

Now that Premium access is restricted, I thought it would be a good idea to put together a list of features that have been added to the Premium UI so that people could see what they get for their (paltry :) ) $5/month. As I continue to add things that are Premium-only, I'll keep this list updated. If I'm forgetting anything, please PM me with what I've left out. So, without further ado (and in no particular order), here it is:

• Double the signature length! (max 512 characters instead of 255)
  
• Twice the Private message storage
  
• The freedom to choose a custom rank
  
• The ability to upload your own avatars
  
• The ability to change your name
  
• The ability to control if you want to see sigs, avatars, images
  
• Happy Birthday greetings
  
• Friends lists
  
• Ignore lists
  
• The ability to show online status to only friends
  
• The ability to accept PM's from only friends
  
• The ability to show email, web, messenger and personal information to only friends
  
• The "Home panel" view, combining a list of online/offline friends, new PM's, a list of watched threads (and new message notifications on those threads) and more.
  
• The ability to link to remote avatars
  
• A signature editor that is much like the new post editor (instead of having to know the bbcode in your head)
  
• The ability to control your own email information
  
• A much improved member list with the abiity to filter the list, add fields and sort on additional information
  
• Additional forum stats at the bottom of the page
  
• No advertisements (and trust me, more are coming to regular)
  
• More smileys
  
• Additional fonts
  
• Text effects (fade, rainbow color, strikethrough, glow, and many more
  
• The "Unread Message" flags remain unread even after closing the browser and coming back in. No longer do you have to read everything at once or lose what's been read and what hasn't.
  
• Clicking on the orange "new post" flag brings up the first unread post in the thread -- no matter how many times the thread has bee visited during the current session. (During the game yesterday, I probably checked the thread 50 times by clicking on that and going directly to the first unread message. So much easier than trying to remember what was the last page I looked at and going back there by page number.)
  
• All smileys now appear on the posting screen, so there's no need to hit the "see more smilies" link to get to the good ones!
  
• On a trial basis, this new mod hides any forum that doesn't have new posts. So the ones that don't get much traffic don't take up space on the screen. Only the forums (fora?) with activity show up on the index page.
  
• I've change the text edit box for messages from tiny to a more reasonable size (15 lines and 35 characters wide to 25 lines and 50 characters wide).
  
• I found a way to have long text lines (like aaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh) not stretch the screen so that a scroll bar becomes necessary.
  
• Premium users don't have to see the advertisements (and there's just going to be more and more in the regular forum. And those of you that are looking at them, please, click through and buy stuff! I'm trying to find interesting stuff to advertise, at least. :) ).

How do I change my name, and change wheter or not I can see sigs?

Both are accessed using the "Profile" link at the top of the page.

Once there, to change your name go to the "Registering" tab of the profile screen and you can change your screen name (I only ask that you keep it clean and give us a clue who you are).

To change whether or not you see sigs, go to the "Profile" tab, then click on "Profile Settings" on the left side, then on "Reading". There you'll be able to set whether you see avatars, signatures and images.

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Try it now.

Test...

Seems to work now. (though you've removed the proof!) :D

Also, I can't upload an avatar from my machine. Sometimes I get a message saying it needs to be under 6 KB. And when I try to put one up that is less than 6 KB, it says "The avatar filetype must be .jpg, .gif or .png". I've tried uploading avatars that are .jpg and .gif and under 6 KB, but I can't get any of them to work.

I'll have to check that out tonight. There appears to be a bug in the upload avatar code.

Sweet it works!

 

Edit: 4321

Can you put a note in your sig about your previous name if you make a change?

Thanks.

 

[*]The "Unread Message" flags remain unread even after closing the browser and coming back in. No longer do you have to read everything at once or lose what's been read and what hasn't.

 

You think you could hook us all up with this one?

It's only $5 / month...

Tim,

 

I just submitted my payment via PayPal.

 

Thanks for the great site!

You should be set!

I'm sold. I need more space for 11+ bandWGNs

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