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All the posts have been restored and the database is back to normal, so post away! Sorry about that!

haha i win Thanks to everyone who's helped make this community great, keep it up

In case you hadn't noticed, we're finishing upgrading the forum. If you run into any bugs, please PM blike, fafalone, or any of the moderators. Thanks!

Yesterday was the largest amount of posts on a single day in all ScienceForums history, and also only the 2nd time we broke 300 in a day. The previous record was 318 on January 23rd, 2003. Lets keep it up

You can now access forum groups on ScienceForums.net through the following subdomains: http://biology.scienceforums.net http://physics.scienceforums.net http://math.scienceforums.net http://medicine.scienceforums.net http://chemistry.scienceforums.net Also the main forum page can be accessed with http://forums.scienceforums.net

Reupload your avatars. Dey ugly, got messed up in the transfer.

Alright guys, here is the deal. Any member who gets 25 or more referrals will receive a free shirt, mug, or mousepad with any of the images below. Image Option 1: Image Option 2: Image Option 3: (physics can be replaced with any field) More images will be added soon (likely way before anyone gets 25 referrals). In order to refer someone, they must follow this link.. http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/index.php?referrerid=1 Replace "1" with your UserID and use this as the link to send to your friends. If you're not sure what your UserID is, click on your name in the "Active Users" list on the left hand side of the main page.…

I have created a banner and buttons if you wish to link to us. They are standard sized (468x60, 120x60, 88x31) JPGs in the attached zip. The raw render from 3dsmax is available at http://fafalone.hypermart.net/scienceforums/ ( (very) high-resolution TIF) if you wish to resize it to other dimensions for other use. Note: I noticed that for some reason QuickTime apparently thinks it can open .tif files. It cannot. Use Save Target As (or equiv in your browser) and open it with a program that can actually read that format, or your browser may freeze. sf_images.zip

Free t-shirt to the person with the best idea for a shirt (science related). Email me: blike@scienceforums.net or PM me.

I'm not quite sure what happened here...looks like all the settings got reset. smells funny!

Just a friendly reminder to all members, please do not post the same thing multiple times. If you think something belongs in two different forums, you should pick one them. Duplicate threads will be deleted. This also applies to duplicate replies.

I changed the javascript around a bit so that vbcode that you insert into a reply [using the buttons] will appear wherever your cursor is in the replybox, instead of at the end of the text. Mucho less annoying. Only works with IE.

At the bottom of every thread you'll see a quick reply box. Its there for us lazy people who would rather not have to click "Post Reply" for a simple response. It does not parse vbCode, so if you want to make your text pretty or add hyperlinks you still need to use the "Post Reply" button. If you find any bugs PM me.

Today marks one year since we started this site. Here's some statistics: After one year, we have 495 members (346=69.9% with 1+ posts) who have made 15,500 posts in 1223 different topics. The most new members joined in April 2003 and July 2002, each with 65 new members. However week 11 (in March 2003) captures the record for most new members, with 24. January 23, 2003 was the day with the most posts with 317. Yearly averages: Posts per year: 15500 Posts per month: 1292 Posts per day: 42.5 View the top 50 posters: http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/memberlist.php?s=&what=topposters&perpage=50 Thanks to all of our members, and …

I added a hack that will make it easier to quote posts. If you look in the upper right area of each post you'll see a checkbox with "quote" next to it. Check all the posts you want to quote and when you hit reply it will automatically quote them for you. Right now it only shows up for users using the orbitz theme. Let me know if you find any bugs.

Some people would do well to make sure they know who's who. http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/showgroups.php?s=

I just wanted to encourage all users, particularly some of our newer and younger users, that choosing a good topic for your thread is very important. The topic of the post should be in the title. Not only are you likely to get more reads on it, but it will also look better in the topic list.

We have added a "Philosophy & Religion" forum. Threads from this forum will not appear on the main page, but the forum can be accessed through the main forum list (click "Forums" on the upper right menu)

Wow. By far the record. This far surpassed the old 208. Great job everyone, let's keep it up!

The new user title ladder is structured as follows: Lepton (Minimum Posts: 0) Quark (Minimum Posts: 10) Meson (Minimum Posts: 50) Baryon (Minimum Posts: 100) Atom (Minimum Posts: 200) Molecule (Minimum Posts: 400) Protist (Minimum Posts: 750) Organism (Minimum Posts: 1000) Primate (Minimum Posts: 1500) Scientist (Minimum Posts: 3000) Genius (Minimum Posts: 5000) There's higher ones, but you'll have to wait to see them Custom user titles are a moderators perk Post any suggestions in General Discussion.

I have added a bunch of new smilies that can be used for writing mathematical equations. Since images are not allowed, this feature is very useful for accurately expressing things like partial derivatives and integrals. Click "Get More" on the Smilies box when posting to see them. Send me any symbols I've left out, size should be similar to existing ones. Also, superscript and subscript tags been added, and . Close with a /

Several people have encountered errors while attempting to vote on polls from the internal AOL browser; it throws an invalid session error. While the cause or a fix is not known to us yet, the problem can be resolved by not using AOL's internal browser.

The theme "new" is finished. I don't know if it switched all of you guys over to it automatically. If it did, and you prefer purple, you can change it from your user control panel.