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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...

Melon04, what do you mean by the new forum community? We don't intend to make drastic changes here.

S&S, Thank you for sharing your pet peeve. If it's troubling you, it's troubling other people too. This is the kind of small fix we're looking to gather. Along with the big ideas, that I hope to see as well. Steve

I'm starting a new thread so we can continue the flow of ideas already flowing under my Announcement thread. Apparently the Forum's near-death experience has jolted people into action. We--Carol, me, Tinkerman, and Deb--want to hear any and all ideas for how we can improve this Forum. All...

Carol gave this lecture in 2017 at a local library. The lecture was sponsored by MUFON. We knew it was being taped, but we didn't know that MUFON was going to post it and promote it online. That version got more than a million views. But then, for reasons we never understood, they took it down...

Hello, Here, for the first time posted in public, is the essay Carol wrote for the Bigelow Institute essay competition. We actually worked on it together, full-time for five months. We didn't win. Here's the link to read the pdf or download it. carolbowman.com/essay We encourage you to...

GuySitting, thanks for this. You just found and contributed that video, right? I'll show it to Carol. Carol is including this case in her current writing project; we call it "9/11 Baby". It is, in her opinion, the best American case--as good as the best of the Stevenson cases. The only...

Thank you for your replies and suggestions. Carol is including the Baby 9/11 case, but with changed names. She doesn't want to contact the Long Island family, so as not to upset them. It's a tough decision. Maybe someday. We'll look at the Tomo case. And the YouTube "That's So Strange" case...

I was originally thinking of just the posts by members, the ones from families (usually mothers) who are asking for help and validation. "Don't think I'm crazy, but ..." That's the first purpose of this Forum, to help those families. But now that you mention it, we are interested in whatever...

This is Steve, Carol Bowman's husband. Carol and I are back to writing about children's past lives. Yay! It's taken me 20 years to get Carol to write again. She's finally doing it. It'll be worth the wait. She has a lot to add to the ideas in the first two books published 20 years ago. We can't...

Hello mods and helpers and friends of the Reincarnation Forum, This is Steve Bowman, Carol's husband, webmaster, and Grand Poobah! We're going to be upgrading the underlying software of the Forum as soon as this evening (2/9/16), most likely tomorrow (2/10/16). This means that, when I say...

Firebird, you're correct that we can't stop unsolicited solicitations altogether. We discourage it, and retain the right to ban any person doing the soliciting who flouts our rules and does it repeatedly. We want to make it hard to get away with. And make it easy for anybody who is bothered...

Mama2 -- good point. "Safe" means safe from hecklers and bullies as well. Of course it's a judgment call--what's a heckle and what's healthy skepticism? But I'm sure regular Members like you, and the mods, know the difference and know how to handle it. So I'm all in favor of adding hecklers...