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Site News File

This is the latest Zone BBS news file. It was last modified on Saturday, 14-Jan-2012 18:41:08.

Due to a cost of business increase, the price for a new username change will be increasing to $6.98 as of February 1. Act now to get your username changes for the existing price!

The Quicknotes Quiz League is coming back for 2012! Once again there will be ten quizzes taking place throughout the year in the public quicknotes arena. You will have the chance to win millions of points and - for one lucky Zoner, a year’s Premium Membership and the title of Quicknotes Quiz Champion!

The first round will be at 6pm GMT on Sunday 15th January (with a practice round a week earlier on 8th January) and all you have to do is be there and get the questions right! For further details go to the Boards and read the Quicknotes Quiz League 2012 topic in “Let’s Talk”, or send a private mail to dusty. There’ll be all the usual fun and foolishness and this will be the last league so don’t miss out!

For those of you who have enjoyed making picks in the college football pools this season and haven't already noticed, there is a pool up in the Sports Challenge for the bowl games. You have to make your picks by Saturday December 17, and there are 35 bowl games. A million points is up for grabs to the person with the most correct picks at the end of the bowl season.

Appologies for the delay in correcting premium anagram games. All premium members have been credited with an extra two weeks.

Raffles

Some new raffles have been added, so feel free to take a look at the raffles page. We will be adding some more over the coming days.

UPGRADES TO TEAM TALK

If you've been trying to use the TeamTalk server as of late and are not hearing audio, it's probably because the version of TeamTalk has been updated. Unfortunatley, in order to use the server, it will force everyone to upgrade. Follow the link on the Voice Chat page to download the new version if you have not done so. All settings should be retained from your previous version once you upgrade

For those not aware, the NFL Sports Challenge pools have returned! Check them out, and make your picks to have a shot at winning thousands of points today!

A note to say that the first college football pool is up and ready for picks. This can be found in Sports Challenge.

New in quicknotes, if you type a web address such as http://www.google.com it will now be linked for you. This also applies to FTP and email addresses. Just type the address without any HTML. Enjoy.

By user request, you can now choose to show the Quicknote status of users in the user list at the top of each page. Find this option from your account settings. Thanks to Leviathanm for the idea.

An old favorite is back. Check out Chris N's famous Make a New Friend feature from the home page, and find someone new to talk to.

this weeks english premiership pools are up in sports challenge

If you are being ignored by a user or ignoring their private messages, you can no longer send them email.

We've added a new board for discussions of cellular phones. Check out Cell Phone Talk from the boards page.

To make it fair for everyone, you can now only win one raffle every 30 days.

If you are ignoring a user's quicknotes, they will no longer be chosen by the randomizer.

Congratulations to OceanDream, the winner of our audio profile contest and a year of premium membership. Check out her profile for some amazing vocals, and thanks to everyone who participated.

After much anticipation, we are pleased to announce a new feature that will at long last allow you to use your points. Zone BBS Raffles give you the chance to win cool prizes, including gift certificates, merchandise, and site features. To see what prizes are currently available or buy tickets, look for the Raffles link on the home page. Most raffles are reserved for premium members, though we'll occasionally offer prizes like a free month of premium for anyone to win. Please send us suggestions with prizes you'd like to see or comments on the new feature. Yes, now, the points do matter. Good luck.

It's time to vote in the audio profile contest where someone will win a year premium membership. Look for the link on the home page, and good luck.

Sharing Points.

You can now share your points with others logged in. Type /award points where points is the number you wish to share with each logged in user. They will be deducted from your account. Have fun.

Weather Forecasts

By request, we've added another new Quicknote command, /weather. This command gives current conditions and a 5-day forecast for a city or place. You can type /weather and a U.S., U.K., or Canadian postal code or a city, state, country, etc. such as /weather 90210 or /weather London, England. Or just /weather will get your current forecast for your area, based on your IP address. To control how temperatures and other units are displayed, look for the new units setting in your account settings. Thanks for the suggestion, and keep em coming.

We've added a new feature requested by some of our premium members. You can now send private Quicknotes to others while you are invisible. Here's how it works. Once you send a private Quicknote to another user, they will then of course know you are there. Your name will then appear in their Quicknote user list so they can reply to you. If you want to clear any people who you've talked to, use the /iclear command. Also, if you use /l to log out or each time you log in, your list will also be cleared. If you have any questions or suggestions, post them on our suggestions and feedback board. Invisibility is one of the many features of premium membership.

You can now search just board topic titles instead of searching all of the text in a post.

Try the /8ball command. It knows all.

New users should now be designated in the Who's Online list.

New Board Jump Command

By request, we've added a new Quicknote command to jup to a specific board, or other board pages such as topics with new posts. It's /B location or /BOARD location from the Quicknote box. Type /B or /BOARD for a list of possible boards.

New Game: Between the Words

We're excited to announce a new word game for the site for premium users. Between the Words is all about thinking in alphabetical order. Each day, we'll give you two words, and your job is to find all of the words between them in the dictionary. If you're confused, we explain it a bit more on the game page. The same point system that is used for the anagram games applies here, and in fact the interface is largely the same. It's currently available now in beta, so please let us know if you have any issues.

Posting to Old Board Topics

We've made a change to the boards for really old topics. Now, if there has not been any posts to a topic within the past year, it will be locked from future topics. We will try this out for awhile to see how it goes. Thanks for your ideas and support.

By suggestion, the /time command now displays the time for many cities around the world. Type /time from any Quicknote box to view this page.

Upload and Win with our New Audio Profile Contest

We've just increased the quality and length for audio profiles so we felt it time for a contest. Here's how you can win a year of premium membership on us. Upload a new audio profile between May 4 and May 31, 2011. Then, we'll ask users to vote for their favorite profile in June. The person with the most votes will win a year of premium on us. For more details and complete rules, visit the News and Announcements board.

Stones Fixed

There were some long-time problems reported with stones, preventing users from playing the game in some cases. These have now all been fixed. Enjoy the game.

Longer and higher quality Audio Profiles

It's 2011, and hard drive space is getting cheaper. So we felt it time to increase limits on audio profiles. Premium members now can upload profiles up to 3 minutes long. Standard users now get 30 seconds. In addition, we've increased the quality for audio profiles from 80k to 128k so they'll now sound better as well.

Updates to Keno, TeamTalk

A couple of updates today. First, we now will pay out if you match 0 numbers on Keno. Chec the game for the new payouts. Also, you can now get a more detailed list of who's currently on TeamTalk, including their current nickname. It's near the top of the home page. The number of users link now brings up a page similar to the Who's Online page.

More SMS Carriers

Due to popular request, we've added additional carriers from New Zealand, Germany, and other carriers to the SMS text message gateway. Enjoy.

New Twitter Features.

New Cell Phone Carriers.

The Game Parlor has returned to the boards. Also, a new ignore boards feature is now available, if you want to exclude this or another board from the lists of new posts or search results.

Friendly reminder...Racial slurs such as NIGGA and SPICK are not allowed on the zone. People are getting lax and using them quite frequently. Also no illegal activities such as drug dealing will be tolerated either. TY

Notice: If you are a newer user and have had trouble logging on to the TeamTalk voice chat server, please try again, as we have fixed a problem with updating the user list.

A FRIENDLY REMINDER

ZONEBBS DOES NOT PROMOTE OR ENCOURAGE ANY FILE SHARING OF COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL. Doing so by using the resources of the site itself is in direct violation of the Terms of Service.

NFL Sports Challenge Pools to Close earlier

A reminder to all of you who make picks in the NFL sports Challenge pool that the pools for the next few weeks will be closing on Thursday evening instead of Sunday due to there being a Thursday night game. Good luck.

A CL has been Selected!

Congratulations to Sugar Baby, user number 528, who is the latest addition to the CL team. Feel free to congratulate her and to treat her just as nice as you all treat the rest of us.

Happy 7th Birthday, Zone BBS!

Congratulations to Miss chatter box (#9168) for being the winner in our drawing for a free premium membership. She had over a billion points as of 4 PM Eastern on January 24.

Here's a summary of changes that have been made. First, all users have access to most premium features for the next two weeks, minus longer audio profiles and username changes. Enjoy. Premium users can now create their own TeamTalk channels. You can make them public or private. Also, the quality of audio profiles has been increased to 80kbps from 56kbps. Points have been reset to give everyone a fair chance for 2010.

Zone BBS by Phone Voicemail Notifications by Email

You will now receive an email whenever you get a voicemail on Zone by Phone.

We have now added a dial-up channel to the voice chat server. Please try it out if you are still using a slow as molasses connection.

We now have a Twitter. Follow zonebbs to keep up with posts from admins and CL's.

You can now filter user profiles by gender, age, and country. Do this from the profile browser.

Rough Draft of Team Talk Help File Available!

A rough draft of a help file for use with the Team Talk voice chat client can be found. Changes are sure to be made, but we figured we should get some information out there as soon as possible. find it, here

The Zone BBs Has a Voicechat Server Again!

With the new version of teamtalk that just came out, we decided there was once again a good way to run a voice chat server on the Zone BBS. Info can be found on the, appropriately named, Team Talk voice chat link on the home page. We hope you enjoy.

List of Twitter Users

As requested by many, you can now see a list of zone users that have twitter. It's under the community heading, and is called appropriately, Users with Twitter. Enjoy.

Just a friendly reminder to all to please post your topics under the appropriate categories when creating new topics on the boards. Thanks for your cooperation, it is much appreciated.

A friendly reminder that pulling banned members into conferences via a three way phone line Is in violation of T.O.S. Also note that harassment of a person that has you on ignore is also a violation and can result in you being removed from the zone on either a permanent or temporary basis.

We have new sounds! Big thanks to community leader Q for the sounds. If you want cool sounds or music for your next project, visit http://www.pendlepro.com

By request, we've replaced the list of page links at the bottom of board, profile, topic, and other pages with a box to type in a page number that you wish to jump to. You can still select to go to the previous or next page. We hope this makes your time on the site more enjoyable.

You can now add your Twitter username to your profile.

We've made some changes to the status feature. First of all, all users now have the same access to the status feature. There is no longer a default status message. Your status will be set to whatever it was when you logged out. It is also now always displayed in your user profile, even if logged out. Finally, you can view the most recent statuses for a user from their profile. Enjoy.

We've expanded the SMS text message gateway to include most carriers worldwide. Enjoy.

You can now add interests, hobbies, favorite movies, TV shows, music, and books to your profile. When adding them, separate each entry with a semicolon. For instance: Backstreet Boys; 98 Degrees
You can click on these to see if others have the same interest as you.

As a friendly reminder, Please read over our T.O.S. and make sure you understand them as some people are starting to appear to have forgotten them. If you have questions about the T.O.S. contact a CL for verification.

There is a new board called Here No Evil - See No Evil

Remove Yourself from the Randomizer

For those that don't like being used by your friendly neighborhood randomizer, there's now an option in account settings to opt out. Enjoy.

Canada and London have been returned to ZBP. New numbers: Canada, Toronto 1-647-258-4721 United Kingdom, London 44-20-02227092

Phone pins on Zone BBS by Phone may now be between four and seven digits. All users must change to a new PIN before being able to log in. Please take this time to select one which is especially secure.

We would like to apologise for any inconvenience regarding the confusion surrounding fake quicknotes. We hope the following will get rid of any uncertainties: Fake quicknotes are allowed, since users now have the ability to determine who's sending them. Fake system messages however, are not allowed, as set out in the Terms of Service. Quicknotes sent by a person have a blue link to their profile. Actions have a blue link covering the asterisk and sender's name which lets a reader view the profile. Broadcast messages, which are almost never used, have red asterisks. Other messages have green asterisks to identify where they begin. Thank you.

Just a quick reminder that account sharing is against our terms of service, and also opens your account to unwanted mischief for which you will be held responsible. If you have shared your password or phone pin with anyone else, please take a moment to change both. From the main menu, click on My Account. Users caught sharing accounts risk an immediate and permanent ban.

Due to some problems and issues in identification, we do not allow third parties to set up Zone BBS accounts for people. This is particularly applicable to those who wish to use Zone BBS by Phone and who do not have a computer. Such attempts may be detected as duplicate account sign-ups; if so both accounts may be disabled. We can better address Zone BBS by Phone if all users are at least somewhat active on the website.

Thank you for reading: The Zone BBS staff.

Community leaders:

The current CL team consists of kc8pnl, sugarbab, Liz, Doug V, and SingerOfSongs. They handle much of the day-to-day operations of the site.

Site Admins:

The site admins are Admin A.K.A. Jage and Chris N. They do most of the programming and coding for the site as well as managing premium memberships.