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NS Has moved into the Cloud - We just migrated to Amazon AWS. I suspect there are still some issues here and there, we'll work to fix them as quickly as possible. Sorry for the downtime.

Beginning on July 22nd NS came under a DDoS attack. This has happened to us before, but this one was pretty severe. Essentially a DDoS attack is designed to overload a server or network, thus preventing any legitimate traffic from getting through. This attack was severe enough that it was...

FYI, we are in the process of running a series of data updates back-end Forum data. Forums may be a little slow for a while as this process finishes. It should be about 45 minutes or so. Sorry!

We've just launched an update to NS to allow you to login using Facebook. New users to NS can now register using Facebook in just 3 clicks. But for you existing members, you can also link FB to your account from your Account Settings (below your username in the header). This will allow you to...

The network system that holds the Newschoolers Video files suffered a hard disk failure last night. Nothing was lost and it is in the process of being repaired, however in the mean time new videos may not show up. Everything will appear once the system is repaired and back online. Sorry for...

FYI, we are changing how Karma is stored on the back-end to make calculations faster and more efficient. As a result, we have to convert all the historical karma data which will take a few hours to process. In the mean time you may notice that the Karma graphs in profiles is incorrect. This...

Although our goal is to eventually make the normal forums mobile-friendly (like the News and Picture/Video galleries), we think the mobile forums needed some love. I've just deployed an update to let you write multi-line posts and create new threads in the mobile forums. Ciao!

There was a bug preventing forum threads from loading for a moment, it's back.

I have just deployed some changes to the back-end of the NS Forums. Everything should look and work exactly the same as before, and if it doesn't then something is likely wrong. Please reply below if you have any strange behavior in the Forums today. I'll do my best to fix it ASAP.

I have just deployed an update to add rating bars to Forum threads. If you haven't already noticed, it's at the bottom of the page when reading a thread. You may remember that we launched a new rating system earlier this summer that uses Up/Down ratings instead of a 10 point scale. This...

Hey everyone, I'm working on a new "members only" page for when guests visit pages that they don't have access to, but I'd like to put a photo on this page, something funny. Here is an example of NS's 404 Not Found page: https://www.newschoolers.com/notfound I want to do something similar...

For those of you who who were curious why NS was down briefly this morning, we were performing some software upgrades on the web servers. PHP has been upgraded to a newer series which gives us more tools to work with, and should also help performance during mid winter.

Hey Everyone, I just wanted to preempt the inevitable threads about the drop in Karma last night. Let me explain. First off, you may have noticed that Karma flatlined for the last 10 days or so. This was actually a bug and has nothing to do with the recent change. Regarding the drop in...

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We've been hard at working making a next level video & picture gallery, and I'm happy to announce we are nearly ready. I know this change has been mentioned severl times before, but we really are getting close to launch. We expect to launch around the end of May or early June. The new...

I'm sorry about this guys, but I need to log everybody out of NS to change a setting. This is unavoidable, and it's already 2AM for me so it' time to just get it done. You can all log back in immediately after the change. ~Paul

I'm happy to announce that today we have launched a mobile friendly version of Newschoolers.com! Simply grab your hadset and visit "newschoolers.com" and you will be redirected automatically. (There is a link in the footer if you still want to use the full site). The Mobile site includes...

Hey Newschoolers... We all know that the video system on newschoolers needs work. We've been diligently working behind the scenes on a massive upgrade to this for the last year, and we're entering the final phases. Once this is done, NS will be a strong technical player in the world of...

Hello Everyone, While doing a bit of cleanup work on the Forums, I added the ability to now quote forum topics, not just the replies. Enjoy!!

Hello Everyone, As some of you may have already noticed, the Forums now allow you to preview your message before posting. You can do this when creating or replying to threads. This should help you to determine if you've formatted your post correctly, if images were properly embedded, and if...