Welcome to the new UK-Dance

We're now up and running once more. Please try not to break anything too badly until I've got up tomorrow...

Brill Steve, looking great.
Was just reminiscing with the missus about how long I've been wasting time here, while she rolled her eyes and supped her vino.

Anyone wanna contribute a new banner though?
Let's face it, that one's looking a wee bit tired no?

DJ

If someone fancies doing that it would be great. It was on my list but I ran out of time and creative inspiration...

Should also mention about polls:

1. You now need to be logged on to be able to vote.
2. Anyone can create a poll but before they go live I need to approve them first – just so they don't clash or go completely out of hand...

Muchas gracias for sorting this out!

I seee we can now embeed pictures and videos – cool!!

http://blog.jiglu.com/knowledge/cleaning-up-the-jigluhood-part-3-embedding-youtube-and-more

rebeKah

Looking good Stephen. Nice 1 :) (but 'martin thomas' already taken as a user name? cheesh!)

"Andy" too. Ah well, always hated that name :)

I have a question about the terms of service.

"Also, do not try to sue us, because you are responsible for what you post, for what you allow others to post"

First, I don't allow others to post, the service does. But if you mean to say that I'm responsible for what other people post, how does that work? If someone posts a racist rant, are you saying that's my responsibilty or the collective responsibilty of the group?

Andy

Its intention is that if you give permission to someone else to use your account then you are responsible for what they post. You have no liability for anything else being written by other people using their own accounts. The wording could be improved, I admit.

FWIW it's the first TOS i've looked through for a long time just because of those two first paragraphs. Congratulations on Jiglu btw. I've been following it's progress for the last couple of years since you went live with AN. Thanks for UKD and thanks for the upgrade. A lot of interesting opportunities.

An observation: I posted a reply with a poll attached but it never appeared. Do the polls need to be authorised or is it a bug?

The ability to embed info from Google is a great touch, btw.

I'll see what I can come up with.

Justin

the new site looks great, stephen. thank you for your hard work and continued investment in this community. its been said before by many people, but this site has been a big part of my life over the last ten years.

the only thing i wasn't keen on is the passive aggressive tone of the terms of service. whilst i'm against "nasty things" and "nasty people" i'm not sure i like the prospect of this site being more heavily modded than before. modded boards don't have less flamewars and chaos in my experience. in fact mod decisions sometimes trigger flamewars and resentment. one of the things that is very important to me about ukd is the self moderation. thats not going to change, is it?

One thing I noticed was the member page only seems to list yourself – not sure if thats a bug? thought you might want to know.

I've just noticed the knowledge section seems massively expanded – did you go through some of the old content to pull out useful stuff? must have took you ages!

I have no intention of changing the moderation style and anyone contributing to UKD before has no reason to be concerned about the TOS changing anything.

The terms were put together by a lawyer who used to work for my company but while the intention was to make them easier to understand than most, in practice the style grates on a lot of people and they're not easily skimmable. Hopefully that will be remedied later in the summer.

It's only if you've added a member profile that you appear – some people prefer to hide so it lets them do so. If you choose the 'My preferences' link at the top of the page then the 'Member profile' option you can add in the same sort of stuff as you could on the old UKD site. You can also upload a photo there too.

No, these were all in the knowledge section of the old site but you had to click on one of the topics to find them before so I'm not sure everyone found them.

Thanks!

At the moment it's difficult to see what's new post wise.

Can we have a 'new posts' button on the front page pls Stephen?

iain

there's a list on the bottom right of the homepage – unless that's been added since your post Iain...

I know – I wanted Martin Thomas too!! Anyway, good work Stephen, finally got on here, will take a while to have time to look around.

But I like blue buttons, so big thumbs up so far.

cheers,

Dave