Thanks to everyone for their comments about future board changes, via postings and email. No bricks with attached messages have come thru our windows yet, for which we are grateful ;~)
- the end result, when we make all the changes, if that if you are not happy with how the Otherpower Scoop "front page" serves your needs, all you should have to do is change the URL with which you access the board. You can bypass the new front page this way. If you are interested in only homebrewed electricity, use: "http://www.fieldlines.com/section/homebrew/">http://www.fieldlines.com/
section/homebrew/
to access the site, and you'll see all messages in wind,solar,hydro,controls, and homebrew electricity.
With just the front page, you'll still see the newest section headlines in a box on the side, and can click to sort all newest postings from everywhere.
If you want to see everything on one page, just like the front page is now, there will be a link to do that, and again you can make that your main access URL -- from your perspective, you'll see the same front page you always have.
Thanks to recent feedback, we plan to sub-divide remote living the same way, with sections on water, dwellings, engines etc.....and all postings in those subcategories will show up in "remote living", just like "homebrew electricity" and it's subcats work.
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Everyone's input will be *essential
once we start voting stories to the front page. We are looking at the front page as what our entire community presents to the world as our best postings.
Obviously we'll work up a good FAQ for all this!
Other features that will be turned on are email notification when there's a new reply to your posting, automatic RSS feeds, and more....
Thanks again. These changes should start happening this week.
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