What fresh hell is this?

More info here:


http://groups.able2know.org/able2know/topic/8-1

Did I mention ENGLISH?

Er, sorry.

Basically, the look of the site has been changed a bit (I personally like that new logo).

Meanwhile, there are now GROUPS!

Huzzah, confetti, etc. (I first wrote "confetti" as "graffiti.")

You see the triangle pointer thing at the top of the screen pointing at "Forums." If you click on "Groups," then you're in Groups instead of Forums.

Forums are the plain old regular version of A2K (with some slight and mostly cosmetic changes).

Groups are the brand-new feature.

The philforum folk finally have a home there for example.

You should be able to access the Able2Know group (which is where the thread I linked to above is). You may have to register first, but that's pretty simple.

That's the brief English version, I can try to expand a bit if there are still glaring omissions.

Can't notice new logo.

Vaguely notice new layout.

Groups? Noticed 'em. So what do you do with them? Look hohum so far. I must be missing something.

I think for most of us groups will be ho-hum, and we'll continue to use the forums as usual.

But groups will help immensely with things like the Great Philforum Freakout. (Rather than being integrated into the forums they could've been imported straight to a group and could have kept going more or less as usual.)

Also it sounds like we can create groups for whatever, if we want to. Like, if you wanted to start a Digressions group and be the moderator of it, you could go ahead and decide who can be a member, get rid of crap that appears, etc.

PMs seem to be a separate area outside of Forums or Groups. If you go to your inbox to read a PM you need to select Forums again to get back here.

Plus, the a2k group, for a2k member related issues..

Groups also define who's a Moderator of where. I am a Global Moderator (probably no great surprise there), but other folk will just be Philo Forum Mods, but in the main forums they won't have Moderator powers/tasks.

So...I can, like, zap non-digressors?

That's what I gather, yep.

Digress or begone.

Can I chop off their heads if they begin talking about Ireland?


(Hasa the same effect on me as Vogon poetry.)