Thank you!

Great news as we've got a new server that will improve the performance in general of the website and forum.

It is possible that we lost a few messages posted on the forum yesterday, Tuesday evening. I apologize for that!

If you notice any bug or issue on the website or forum, please kindly let me know it in this thread or by email at m.gauthier@habsworld.net

With the season fast approaching, we’re looking to add a few writers to our team. We’re hoping to expand in a couple of particular areas specifically, our game coverage and Around the Boards segments.

We don’t have any set requirements as to a certain number of articles over a particular time frame, just help out when you can. No writing experience is necessary.

If you’re interested in writing for the site, know of someone who might be interested in writing, or have any questions, please let me know.

Thanks,
Brian

Known 'issues':

- ESPN ticker isn't available yet on the new skins (Now available)

- On the blue one, the sign out/help links are a little hard to see - they're in the same spot though

We were recently under attacks by bots registering in high numbers. Our forum subscription was expired and we didn't have the latest version. I renewed it and performed the upgrade. However, we lost our beautiful Custom HabsWorld forums skin in the process. We have few members who said they were good in design (and html). If any of you are available, let me know.

There also appear to have new features in this version of the boards. Amongst other things, the forum is now easily accessible through smartphones. Feel free to comment about the new features in this thread, and the mods team and I will adjust the settings so the forum can be an enjoyable experience and a good place to share about the Habs.

And why not a good occasion to change our header as well?

The header is composed of two pictures. You can take advantage or not of the rotating system for the left part.

I have attached a template of the 302X115 and 467X96 images used

Create your own and have a chance to have it featured on HW's frontpage!

You can post your picture here or send it to me at m.gauthier@habsworld.net

Thank you

NB: please take in consideration this part of the menu:

http://www.habsworld.net/style/img/header/hb_00000.jpg

Some of the big things that have happened already or are in progress:

New player profiles, written by Matt Godbout and Tristan Tapscott. We've broken them into 2 different categories, NHL'ers and prospects/AHL'ers.

Several of the pages in our Legends section have received updates, courtesy of Fred Doyon.

Our All-Time Jersey List has now been updated with over 500 names added to the original list (some of those appearing more than once as they wore multiple numbers).

We're still looking to update our banner at the top of the site, it's a great opportunity for you to show off your artistic skills. Click here for all the details.

Of course, we're still welcoming people who want to help out with the site throughout the summer and into the season, whether it's with research, writing, or anything in between. If you want to help out or have any suggestions on how we can improve HW as this is our Habs community, please feel free to contact me or our website's administrator, sakiqc.

It has already been more than 5 years that the board is running, and it has been stellar 99% of the time! Keep it up everyone, and kudos to the dedication of the mods team over the years.

(rules link appears in the top banner, between "Calendar" and "Help")

Early this morning, I pre-recorded an interview with CBC Radio One's Sonali Karnick talking about the Habs; the segment will run tomorrow morning at 8:15 AM. From what I've been told, the feature will run around 3 minutes, with my interview counting for about half of it (there's a Montreal-based blogger also contributing to this report.)

For anyone who may be interested in listening, here's a couple of links to the Daybreak site. The first will let you listen live (after you click another link), while the second is an archive for the day, in case anyone sees this tomorrow and is interested to hear what I have to say (and sound like.)

http://www.cbc.ca/daybreakmontreal/index.html

http://www.cbc.ca/daybreakmontreal/columnists.html

I want to take the opportunity to give a big clap to our moderators team. And to all of you for making HabsWorld a great community!

Go Habs

Thanks again for making HW a great community and the admin/mods team will continue to work for you and make HabsWorld the best place for Habs fans all around the world!

PS: Please report in this thread any new technical problem you see on the forum. Thanks.

As of now, we do not know how the bots are bypassing the email validation system. The HW team is working on fidning a way to make the site more secure so that automated bots will not be able to continue spamming our site. I just wanted to take the time to let everyone know about the situation and that we are working on ways to stop the spam.

First forum advertisement

The forum, which opened on May 12, 2003, now has more than 1300 members. As we continue to grow, our need for better and larger hosting services is also increasing. The project was created by, and for, Habs Fans, and we want you to be sure that the Habs fans that are managing this website and forum have absolutely no intention of making any profit from HabsWorld. We face normal expenses associated with the good functioning of a website like ours and we have now put our first advertisement on the forum. We have been very proud to be able to run the forum without any annoying publicity. Hopefully, the little Google ads will be good enough to help cover our costs and will be relevant to us. Please feel free to leave comments/suggestions concerning this idea.

New moderating team

HabsWorld's success is due to the impressive general harmony between members. Thanks to the many regular posters who help carry a positive attitude. It's normal that sometimes there are disagreements and maybe little fights, as well as funny (and not-so funny) bots, simultaneously started threads and other things that requires the presence of our moderators. They are here to keep the forum alive and running smoothly. Here is your moderating team for 2006-07:

alexstream Montreal

dlbalr Ontario

Fanpuck33 Ohio

huzer Colorado

JeanLucPilon Japan

KoZed Quebec

simonus Indiana

New Forums in French!

To accomodate our large French audience and to encourage discussion on the great articles of our French writers, we are pleased to announce today the opening of a new French sub-forum. The moderators below will be in charge of the French forum.

alexstream Montreal

KoZed Quebec

simonus Indiana

Thanks to all of you and hopefully we'll enjoy a great season.. and the longest playoffs possible!

Sincerely,

HabsWorld.net Administration

GO Habs GO !

On the 21st of December at 6pm EST, the HW Forums were hacked by 2 people with IP originating from Kuwait. The HW Forums were successfully closed around 30 minutes after the strike, to put down the hacked version of the forum which contained a signature of the hacker along a suspicious JavaScript code. We put back a backup version of the website, which was hacked down again. We then close the Forums for few hours, the time to install and set up a new forum. We recommend every HW visitor who saw the hacked page of HW to run an antivirus as soon as possible, just in case.

New Forums. New features and some import problems

The admins collaborators have bought a forum software from Invision. In the last hours we worked at moving the 1000 members/ 60 000 posts into the new forums. In the process, we lost few -non critical- settings like avatar and signatures, who aren’t showing up properly for everyone. If you can’t log in your account: Some members can’t log with their accounts on the new Forum. The majority is because they forgot their password. Please try first the password recovery tool. If you still have problems, contact me at m.gauthier@habsworld.net. Other problem noticed, U2Us. We lost half of them. We’ll try to recover them, or we’ll just delete every PM and start over.

Skins and customization

Spathe, the HW Architect, has created a beautiful header in a short time notice. That’s a great start. He’ll probably create other skins, when time allows. I created new user ranks, and will update it when time allows.

New features

The new forum has tons of new features. Take the time to update your personal profile and look around. Here are the most important new features:

Under the header, there are important links:

• “View New Posts” where you can see all the latest messages;
• “My Controls” where you can edit your Settings and profile;
• “My Assistant”, a cool new application to help you track the forum;
• “0 New message”, where you can easily see if you have PM, and access them. BTW, “PM” are for “Private Messages” and replace the old “U2U”

• Multi quotes feature, rating feature,

We appointed new moderators to the crew, to help the admins and existing mods to manage the growing forum. Here is your mods crew:

- Colin

- dlbalr

- Fanpuck33

- Habs77

- JeanLucPilon

- KoZed

- simonus

BTW, if you discover new features, tell them to others!! Write them here! hehe

Here is a new feature I just discovered:

Go on a big thread, and check the options on the top right. Try "Outline".. and check the result