READ ME FIRST - Welcome to the New Board

[Jordan]

Please bear with us as we transition from the ikonBoard system to vBulletin. We will do our best to get back to you as soon as possible to resolve any issues you may be having but expect that it may take up to 24-48 hours to do so. Please post your question or an explanation of the problem/s you are having in the Problem Resolution thread so that we can respond publicly. If someone else has a similar situation, we can then share the solution rather than being bogged down answering individual PMs. One of our Beta testers may also be able to assist you.

Thank you for your patience and understanding. We’re confident that you will find the new Board to be a vast improvement once you get used to it and we have fixed any of the “bugs” that didn’t show up in the beta testing.


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[Jordan]

What’s New?
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LOTS!!!

There’s some REALLY cool stuff on this Board! We’ll only list a few of the things that we think would be most helpful to get you started, but the best way to find out all the bells and whistles is to just give yourself some time to play with it and try things out. We’re pretty sure you can’t break anything. :smile2:

First, if you’re doing a Quick Reply, you can see all of the editing features by clicking the Go Advanced button.

One of the features we would like you all to get in the habit of using is the….drum roll, please….SPOILER BUTTON!! How cool is that? The easiest way to do this is to type your spoiler, highlight it, and then click the red/white button <img src="http://stephenking.com/forums/images/editor/spoiler_icon.gif" height="20" width="21" border="0" /> which shows up in the Go Advanced mode. This will hide the text and only when you click on it, will you see the words. That way even with a spoiler in the text, you won’t have to worry about accidentally reading it when you’re scanning through posts.

If you would like to respond to more than one post at the same time, e.g. either the same person or different people have made comments within a thread that you want to respond to, click the <img src="http://stephenking.com/forums/images/buttons/multiquote_off.gif" height="22" width="25" border="0" /> icon in the bottom right corner of each post; when you’re at the last post you want to quote, use the Quote button and a text box will come up that will have all the quoted posts and a spot for you to add your comments.

You now have the ability to decide how you want to view the threads. On the top right, you will see Display Modes and a drop down menu will appear. Just choose the option that works best for you. You can also set your default vie from within User CP -> Edit Options.

Instead of the Address Book, you have a Buddy List which you set up in your User CP, nearly the bottom of the page in Miscellaneous.

That should get you started. Have fun exploring and if you get into any real trouble, let us know and we’ll try to help you out.

[Jordan]

If you're having trouble logging in with your old message board user name, please click 'Forgot Password' and follow the instructions to reset your password.

This was caused by a glitch in the conversion between the two boards.