Some updates to the PA-Furry website

[giza]

There has been some increased activity on Pennsylvania Furries website recently, so I decided it justified finally biting the bullet and upgrading the site from Drupal 4.7 to Drupal 6.16. That upgrade was fun and... interesting. But now that I have a much more recent version of Drupal installed, I've been able to add some features such as these:

- Event Calendar. Want to know when upcoming furmeets, gathers, etc. are? We now have a calendar that anyone may post events to.

- Buddy lists. Yes, they are what you think they are. Users can now have an actual "friends" list on this site. Go to any user's page and click the link towards the bottom to become their buddy. (Here's an example)

- Private messages. Just what the name implies. Users on the site can now send each other private messages. When you're logged into the site, just click the "Messages" link to get started.

- Searching. I reindexed the entire site (and set up crontabs to keep that happening) so now the search engine works again, and posts (and users) on this site are fully searchable.

- Tagging posts. All posts can now be tagged. Even posts made by others. Go ahead. Give it a try. There is also a tag cloud that lists the most popular tags on the site.

- User profiles that don't suck. All user profiles now have links to a number of social networks, along with support for forum signatures, private messaging, and buddy lists.

And the URL for the Pennsylvania Furries website?

http://pa-furry.claws-and-paws.com/

Check it out, and let me know what you all think!

Comments

[greenreaper.livejournal.com]

Tags are fun, and very useful to get related stories once you've built up a good backlog of posts with them. I just made a list with Views, but there's plenty of other ways (pro tip: order by taxonomy ID desc, so more recent and probably more specific tags are searched for first).

Event calendar looks neat too, particularly the block form.

[bradsmokess.livejournal.com]

i am new to this site. i came across an ad for rottweiler puppies and sent an e-mail. i have not heard anything like e-mail several times now. i told him that the image is not a woman holding a puppy. if something is for sale on this site people to withdraw their ads or just keep running? i think i wonder if a game. site, or you know. Thanks
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[kitt3ns.livejournal.com]

Site looks good, only got one issue.

Is the forum topic text supposed to be huge?
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y81/Panther631/HGTXT.jpg

It's a bit disconcerting after the small text on the rest of the site.

[giza.livejournal.com]

Apparently. That's just the default font. If you think it's a pain in the ass (sounds like it), I can see about tweaking the style.

The recent posts (http://pa-furry.claws-and-paws.com/recent) page doesn't seem to have this issue, interestingly enough.

[giza.livejournal.com]

Okay, I took care of that. Still no idea why the fonts were that large, but nothing a little CSS couldn't fix.

How'd the Furbowl go last night?

[kitt3ns.livejournal.com]

Aye, looks better and I can now browse your forums without the large text discombobulation.

The furbowl was expectantly large, but unexpectedly smooth in execution.

It's very.... lilac. o.O

[doco.livejournal.com]

Re: It's very.... lilac. o.O

[giza.livejournal.com]

Blame omnibahumut.

[wildw0lf.livejournal.com]

Came out well, althoguh I don't know what it looked like before :)