Welcome to the new Forum!

[Cass]

Welcome to the new Bar Towel Forum!

We've found a design theme that has some similarities to the old board, and over the next little while I'll do what I can to tweak it so the experience is similar to what it was.

However, I'm sure everyone will find the new software to be a big improvement - you can change your profile, etc. We've also pruned the user list of a huge # of the bots (hundreds of thousands) so that's cleaned up too. And search works!

And welcome new registrants! If you had registered in the past but was unactivated, I'd suggest re-registering as you can do that yourself now. I'm truly sorry for everyone who couldn't register - the bots won that war but hopefully we're in better shape moving forward.

If anyone finds anything weird about the board, post it up and I'll check it out.

[spinrsx]

looks great!

[mds]

Looks good, thanks for the upgrade!

[ScienceKiller]

I finally have an account to post. Was always funny reading through and about to post a reply and remembered I didn't actually have an account. Thanks for the upgrade, looks good.

[Cass]

I finally have an account to post. Was always funny reading through and about to post a reply and remembered I didn't actually have an account. Thanks for the upgrade, looks good.

Thanks, and welcome. Sorry about the wait for the account

[mojo]

Hooray! I'm no longer a ghost!

[Belgian]

Now we all need to get with the Nineties and upload a decent user avatar image.

I take it a slightly larger res file is now possible. The question marks look so accusing. WHO IS THIS PERSON??? Thanks Cass.

[Napalm Frog]

Yay! Lurking got old after a year, haha.

[Dennis]

Yay - I can interact!

[Craig]

By my count we have 19 new members already since the upgrade, although two of them look like spammers. I kinda doubt people in Estonia or the Cook Islands care about the Ontario beer scene. That's terrific! The place could use the fresh blood.

[Cass]

By my count we have 19 new members already since the upgrade, although two of them look like spammers. I kinda doubt people in Estonia or the Cook Islands care about the Ontario beer scene.

You know what, it mustn't have been an hour after the launch yesterday morning that bots got past the default captcha and posted some spam threads.

From what I've read the best way to keep the bots away is the "trivia" method, which I've put into place on the registration page. Hopefully it won't be hard for people, but may be for those under 30

[Masterplan]

Looks good, but the orange and red text seems to pop out 3D like on my phone (HTC, chrome browser). Kinda gives me a headache...

[Craig]

By my count we have 19 new members already since the upgrade, although two of them look like spammers. I kinda doubt people in Estonia or the Cook Islands care about the Ontario beer scene.

You know what, it mustn't have been an hour after the launch yesterday morning that bots got past the default captcha and posted some spam threads.

From what I've read the best way to keep the bots away is the "trivia" method, which I've put into place on the registration page. Hopefully it won't be hard for people, but may be for those under 30

By "what you read" you mean "what I told you over drinks at Volo like 4 months ago" right?

[Cass]

By my count we have 19 new members already since the upgrade, although two of them look like spammers. I kinda doubt people in Estonia or the Cook Islands care about the Ontario beer scene.

You know what, it mustn't have been an hour after the launch yesterday morning that bots got past the default captcha and posted some spam threads.

From what I've read the best way to keep the bots away is the "trivia" method, which I've put into place on the registration page. Hopefully it won't be hard for people, but may be for those under 30

By "what you read" you mean "what I told you over drinks at Volo like 4 months ago" right?

Gah, I can't remember everything people tell me in bars

Your advice & encouragement were obviously huge factors in getting this finally done, so thanks bud!

[Torontoblue]

Looks good, Cass. Thanks for all the work in getting us the upgrade