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Carol and I have decided to reverse our passive roles with the Forum and get actively involved again, as we were in the first ten years or so (starting in 1997). Two things prompting this. First, is that we are concerned at the drop in traffic and new members. The Reincarnation Forum is...

The Washington Post just published an excellent article about children who remember past lives. It features Jim Tucker. It fails to mention Carol at all. This could be a chance to set the record straight if this author were to follow up with an article that spotlights Carol's pioneering work and...

How are we handling these suggestions? I think Sarra has a good point. Dark mode is the kind of detail that we older people don't appreciate that young people expect, and the kind of suggestion we welcome. Thank you @Sarra for explaining this.

Totoro. I love it! Maybe a little past life humor. But the main appeal should be something like: "If you got value from this Forum, please pay a little of it back so that we will always be here for you and for other souls who follow."

Any volunteers for FaceBook Ambassador? We do have a FaceBook page, but I don't know what it does now. I'm not a FaceBook person. https://www.facebook.com/PastLifeForum/

Creating a non-profit and all that is a long-term goal, nothing we're going to do right now. I'm just framing our current modernization as a step, a stage, towards the Reincarnation Forum being an institution not dependent on any individuals, including Carol and me. I agree that defining roles...

Karen, what would it take to make collaboration with ICRR a reality? Can we start a dialogue about that? To the extent it requires modifications to our policies and procedures here, we need to get our mods and leaders in on the discussion. And Carol, or course. But I agree, whatever differences...

Wow. All good stuff. This is exactly the kind of issues that Carol and I want to bring out into the open. The big idea, here in 2022, is that the Reincarnation Forum (after its recent near-death experience) be modernized and retooled to resume its role as a leader and force for good among the...

@landsend Have you tried accessing the XenForo community forum? That's a great place for questions like this. I'm encouraging mods to get in the habit of going there to learn XenForo better and solve problems. It's at https://xenforo.com/community/ Go there and register. I think to get into...

We totally in favor of making our Forum more visible online. We have so many stories to tell that, if packaged especially for the other media types, should alert more people that we exist--people that need us but didn't know to look. Clearly we should organize a list of external resources...

If these guidelines sound overly strict, narrow, or harsh, please understand the 25 years of experience that goes into them. There are two types of situations where they are called for. One is overtly obnoxious posters who are clearly just trying to cause trouble. Trolls. People with their own...

@landsend I'll take you up on your offer. What do you need to fix our mobile-responsive header?

Sorry about my test notice. I didn't know it would go to every member. I tried but I can't figure out how to stop it. Well, now we know what it does! This notice function should be reserved for important bulletins, like when we're going to shut down the Forum for a couple hours to do maintenance.

I just reread the mission statement for the first time in at least ten years; I think I wrote it 20 years ago. I was looking to see if it needs to be update or revised as part of our new push to modernize and re-focus the Forum. (It's in the section Forum Rules and Guidelines.) What I...

@landsend. Thanks for the bug report. We probably need to redo the appearance to be mobile responsive. Sounds like a project, not a quick fix. But it is something we need to do. @helz_belz I'll see what I can do about email notifications. The backend is quite cryptic, but I've been able to...

Version 2.2 adds three discussion types: Poll (now a separate format), Article, and Question. I'm testing it out now. Feel free to join the test with your comments. Silly is ok for this test. Let's see how this works. Is this message the article? I now that the article will stay pinned to the...

The upgrade of our XenForo forum software was completed this morning and so far, so good. This was a major upgrade, from our old 1.5 version that we had been using for 5 years, to this sleek version 2.2. This thread is for any questions you have arising from the upgrade. Did the upgrade turn...

Your ideas to make important threads easy to find--indexing, or whatever--are really good, exactly the kind of improvement we're hoping for to make the Forum easier to use for newer members and easier to mine for the veterans. My only suggestion right now: if you're getting started on specific...

I said above that we're looking at everything, including the underlying software, which is Xenforo. I just looked into it and discovered that we've been running a very old version of Xenforo. Upgrading will give us new features, be easier to use, and greater security. I also did a little...

All good suggestions. Keep them coming. Ocean, you're on the right track. We want to be more integrated with other places online where reincarnation is being discussed. We just don't know how, yet. We're going to take a hard look at the underlying software and server infrastructure of the...