Hi BassResource fans!

If you've been here for a few years, then you know I upgrade the forums during the early winter. Well, here we are again, and I'll be updating the forums this Friday. We'll need to shut down the forums during the upgrade, so I wanted to give you this notice in case you try to login during that time. Hopefully it won't be more than a few hours, but I can't guarantee that.

Note that you won't have to do anything. But I advise you to look up your login ID and password just in case you need to login after the upgrade. Of course, you could always use the "forgot password" if all else fails.

In the next few days, I'm going to give you a sneak peek into what we have in store for you. First up: The Auto Save feature.

Auto Save

A new and really handy feature we've added is auto save. As you type, the editor checks to see if there's any new content and if there is, it'll save what you've written. If anything happens to your page, upon reloading you'll see it's stored your content and you can quickly restore it. You won't lose another post to a browser crash or server time out!

There's many more enhancements coming. Stay tuned!

Sounds great... I definitely could have used that Auto Save in the past.

Sounds great... I definitely could have used that Auto Save in the past.

X2. I sometimes write a long post in Word and cut-n-paste over to the Board to avoid losing a lot of typing...

Thanks for the heads up again Glenn. Sounds like some great features are about to arrive!

New Search System

One of the biggest change will be a brand new filter menu on the search results, to replace the myriad of dropdown menus that we previously used. Content can be effortlessly filtered with single clicks.

In addition to the main filter menu, search results also make use of a new filter bar to enable sorting and ordering (again replacing dropdown menus). This makes it much easier to find exactly what you’re looking for.

These and many, many more enhancements are coming tomorrow!

Thanks, Glenn! That autosaved thing will be a lifesaver in not having to re-type posts.

Oh god is the site going to be down a month again like last year?

I hear there will be "one click" banning available to mods.

One more nugget to whet your appetite:

Topic Replies

Quite often you're on a busy board such as ours and you're using the fast reply to make a post and when you submit the post you realize that others have posted in the mean time, making your reply either redundant or out of context.

To solve this, the board will check at regular intervals to see if any new posts have come through, and if so, you can add them to the page to view them before you submit your post – without losing your post!

I've seen that in action - it saves a ton of foot in mouth situations. VERY COOL!!

Putting our foot in our mouth is what defines some of us.lol

WOW - that was about the fastest upgrade I've seen on any board!

Warp 9 !