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TheHolo.Net
Oct 30th, 2003, 07:56:21 PM
I am pleased to announce that over the last few weeks I have been working to bring even more new features to our site, and my efforts have been successful with the help of some guinea pigs to help me test them out and ask me all the right questions and even provide me with some of the right answers.

For the last week or so I have had several Moderators and RolePlaying Group Moderators assisting me in an effort to make our community even better than it was, and in trying to reach that goal I believe we have succeeded. Some of these new features will be very obvious over the next half an hour or so as I start making some small changes to the page headers so that you can see links to the biggest of the new features:

A Forum Gallery (/photopost/index.php?s=)

Some of the other features that have been added are not so easily noticed without some exploration or maybe just some time spent on the Forums, knowing what different limitations and things are currently available.

If you look at the link to the Forum Gallery that I just posted you can see that it is a place where images can be uploaded here at SWFans.Net, but as usual with anything new and exciting there are a few catches. This is no different. There is a catch to get full functionality out of all of the new features including the Forum Gallery.

A new program has been implemented that will allow any registered member of our community to gain full access to all the new features added. It is what is now called the “SWFans.Net Supporter” program.

The Supporter Program consists of an annual subscription service. A user contributes $10 U.S. to assist SWFans.Net Forum with its hosting and software expenses and in return that contributor is rewarded with a set of new features currently including 10 listed items and a couple of others not publicly listed.

To view the full list of additional features please follow this link to the:

Supporter Account Information and Purchase Page (purchase.php?s=)

Currently there are two purchase options available on that page. One is the Supporter Account Upgrade and the other is the Supporter Exclusive Forums Custom Title change. For more information please see the detailed descriptions of each feature on the information page I just linked you to.

Note: When upgrading to a Supporter account you receive a custom title of your own choosing for your account, to be displayed in the supporter exclusive forums included in the single fee for upgrading.
Please feel free to ask questions, but I do request that you read the Information page before doing so because it will contain answers to many of the questions one may have.

Feedback of any kind is also allowed.

Currently a few of the test users have already made their contribution and become Official “Supporters”. You might notice them posting around on the forums with a new Supporter Exclusive custom title image under their username that all supporters get, as part of the package.

Thanks for your time and your contributions to our site, whether they be monetarily or even just in our site’s content.

SWFans.Net

TheHolo.Net
Oct 30th, 2003, 08:08:54 PM
Originally posted by Master Yoghurt
It is important to note; non subscribing members don't lose any existing forum features :) From Yog in the BO thread of the same name. :)

TheHolo.Net
Oct 30th, 2003, 08:26:13 PM
And now the Portal Page also includes a Random Image displayed on it from the Forum Gallery. :)

TheHolo.Net
Oct 31st, 2003, 04:22:39 AM
The "Recent Gallery Image" hack for the main forums index that I mentioned in the announcement is almost complete, and is already in place. I'm hoping to tweak it just a little bit soon.

Alpha
Oct 31st, 2003, 07:14:18 AM
This just keeps getting better and better! :)

TheHolo.Net
Oct 31st, 2003, 02:40:09 PM
No questions? Wow! The info page must be good then. :) :p


Here is a list of the Supporter members as of now:

SWFans.Net
Marcus Elessar
Master Yoghurt
Morgan Evanar
AmazonBabe
Agent Charley
Silus Xilarian
Jinn Fizz
Pierce Tondry
Evil Hobgoblin
Zasz Grimm
Dasquian Belargic
Ryla Relvinian
DarthHera
Daiquiri Van-Derveld
s'Ilancy
Taylor Millard
Figrin D'an
Terran Starek
Lilaena De'Ville
ReaperFett
Navaria Tarkin
Eve
Dru
Shanaria Fabool
JMK
Nikkiah Wintermoon
Slayn Cloak
Xyver Khale
Ishan Shade
Darth Viscera
Shawn
Crystal
Kitty McQuade
Khendon Sevon
Natia Elessar
Mu Satach
Blade Ice
Maal Lah
Alana Stormcloud
Alex
Kyle Raiden
Cyrel Annat
Jedi Master Leia Solo
Shade Magus
Cardinal Aiyalin
Dae Jinn

Thanks for becoming SWFans.Net Supporters!

Dasquian Belargic
Oct 31st, 2003, 02:40:47 PM
Pierce Tondry
Evil Hobgoblin

Greedy Brian :p

Zasz Grimm
Oct 31st, 2003, 03:48:45 PM
I sent ya two payments, ogre.

One for Zasz and one for Dasquian. :)

Pierce Tondry
Oct 31st, 2003, 07:43:36 PM
Greedy? I'm supporting the board and giving money up, how is that greedy? :-p

Droo
Nov 1st, 2003, 03:45:33 PM
Is it possible to not have the gallery features at the bottom of the portal and forums pages?

TheHolo.Net
Nov 1st, 2003, 03:51:22 PM
Multiple Gallery images do not appear at the bottom of the Portal page in any style. However, the images do appear on the main forum index in all styles except the two text based ones. So, you could use the text based styles to not have the gallery images on the main forum index.

In another week or so the Gallery images that appear on the Main Forum Index will be reduced to a count of 4 images only.

Droo
Nov 2nd, 2003, 08:41:21 AM
Righto. I'd just rather not have to scroll past all those images in order to check out whose online and all the other features down there, but...


Originally posted by SWFans.Net
In another week or so the Gallery images that appear on the Main Forum Index will be reduced to a count of 4 images only.

...that will be much better.

TheHolo.Net
Nov 2nd, 2003, 11:32:26 AM
Cool.

We thought the newness factor of the Gallery would be good to promote by having additional images on the main forum index. Once the newness factor is gone we'll reduce the promotion and lower the image count. :)

TheHolo.Net
Nov 9th, 2003, 03:59:51 AM
Within the next few weeks I should be adding somewhere in the vicinity of 5 new Supporter Exclusive style sets. Forum style sets that only "Supporters" can use or see. :)

Lilaena De'Ville
Nov 9th, 2003, 01:52:09 PM
That will be awesome. :)

TheHolo.Net
Nov 11th, 2003, 12:11:21 AM
Here are some Previews of the first three of the Supporter Exclusive Styles. Click the thumbs for larger versions.

<table border=0 width=100%><tr><td align=center><img src=http://sw-fans.net/photopost/data/501/1Slicer-Imperial-thumb.jpg border=0> (/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=228&password=&sort=1&cat=998&page=1)
Slicer - Imperial</td><td align=center><img src=http://sw-fans.net/photopost/data/501/1Slicer-Alliance-thumb.jpg border=0> (http://sw-fans.net/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=227&password=&sort=1&cat=998&page=1)
Slicer - Alliance</td><td align=center><img src=http://sw-fans.net/photopost/data/501/1deathstar-thumb.gif border=0> (http://sw-fans.net/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=226&password=&sort=1&cat=998&page=1)
Deathstar</td><?tr></table>

Zeke
Nov 11th, 2003, 01:51:36 PM
Say, I just got some money in a very very late birthday card (curse the school's mail system) and I was wondering; is Paypal the ONLY way to pay you the ten dollars for supporter features?

TheHolo.Net
Nov 11th, 2003, 02:44:59 PM
Originally posted by Zeke
Say, I just got some money in a very very late birthday card (curse the school's mail system) and I was wondering; is Paypal the ONLY way to pay you the ten dollars for supporter features? Send me a PM, and we can discuss that there.

TheHolo.Net
Nov 13th, 2003, 05:07:00 PM
Here is another Supporter Exclusive style, recently completed:

<table border=0 width=100%><tr><td align=center><img src=http://sw-fans.net/photopost/data/501/1endor1-thumb.jpg border=0> (http://sw-fans.net/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=252&password=&sort=1&cat=998&page=1)
Endor</td></tr></table>

TheHolo.Net
Nov 18th, 2003, 04:34:20 PM
Here is another Supporter Exclusive style, recently completed:

<table border=0 width=100%><tr><td align=center><img src=http://sw-fans.net/photopost/data/501/1Obi-Skin-Prev-thumb.jpg border=0> (http://sw-fans.net/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=317)
Obi-Skin</td></tr></table>

Xyver Khale
Jan 6th, 2004, 08:45:49 PM
Obi skin... too awesome... must... buy supporter...

Slayn Cloak
Jan 6th, 2004, 09:11:59 PM
ten bucks well spent.

Ishan Shade
Jan 7th, 2004, 10:11:34 PM
*holds hand out*

C'mon Slayn, where's my ten bucks?? :D

Crystal
Jan 16th, 2004, 01:59:50 AM
*shows off little lightsaber under title*

:D

Sejah Haversh
Jan 16th, 2004, 02:09:51 AM
I'm too frikking poor...

Zeke
Feb 3rd, 2004, 06:45:48 PM
Originally posted by Sejah Haversh
I'm too frikking poor...

I'm havin' that same problem.

Azhure Darkstone
Feb 23rd, 2004, 08:39:49 PM
I don't have the right credit card for paypal. I'm registered but I havent specified a card yet and I don't know about getting an american express or anything like that. I might have to PM you about other payment Ogre if I can afford it.

Lilaena De'Ville
Mar 16th, 2004, 01:18:46 PM
Azhure I know you wrote this a while ago, but you should be able to use a checking account, not just a credit card.

Titus
Mar 16th, 2004, 02:40:07 PM
I only use a checking account with paypal, I transfer money from there to paypal. You shouldn't have any problems doing it, it just takes a few days for the transfer to go through.

(Alex) Jacen
May 3rd, 2004, 05:30:04 AM
Woohoo! Paypal is about the only place in the universe where my card works...yay! *does backflips*


Edit:
YAY! ME HAVE LIGHTSABER!!!