Push 5/9 - Default Topic Ordering, Customizable Admin PMs, New Community Scripts

feeds@yuku.com (Yuku Team) — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:30:57 GMT

Features

Static Stickies
(redone and better than ever)

Topic ordering option
You can now choose how your topics are ordered by default. You can order them using the Lead post, the latest post, or alphbetically. All of those...

Scheduled Maintenance: 5-13-2008 10:00 PM - 5:00 AM (-7 GMT)

feeds@yuku.com (Yuku Team) — Mon, 05 May 2008 13:01:37 GMT

Yuku is moving to a new data center on Tuesday, May 13, 2008. The new data center provides us with the space and network infrastructure to grow and provide you with unparallel service.

Yuku will be unavailable during this scheduled maintenance window. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause for you or your community members.

New Community Skins

feeds@yuku.com (Yuku Team) — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:46:25 GMT

Check out the new Community Skins. Go to Admin Menu > Design > Skin Library. Click "Apply" to use one on your Community.

Push 4/17 - Static Stickies, IP column on Pending page

feeds@yuku.com (Yuku Team) — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:36:57 GMT

Features
- Static stickies: Stickied topics will not bump to the top of the topic listing when someone replies to it. They will stay in the order in which they were stickied.
- IP column on Pending members page
- New users can now confirm their email with just their AOL, gmail, hotmail, or yahoo username and password.

Fixes
- YouTube and Google Video embeds won't auto-play when...

Scheduled Maintenance 4/14 and 4/15

feeds@yuku.com (Yuku Team) — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:05:44 GMT

Our server hosting company has informed us that they need to perform emergency maintenance. This maintenance will require them to turn off the power to the servers for up to three hours each night for two days.

Maintenance will take place on:
4/14 10:00pm-1:00amPT
4/15 10:00pm-1:00amPT

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Yuku Help Ticket System - Update

feeds@yuku.com (ckerr) — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:23:15 GMT

We have upgraded the ezboard board Helpdesk software to a new version. During the upgrade we imported all tickets from helpdesk.ezboard.com over to helpdesk.yuku.com. All the tickets were successfully imported.

The new helpdesk version requires an account to access your tickets. If you had an open or unresolved ticket on helpdesk.ezboard.com you will can register an Yuku Helpdesk account by following these steps:

1. Go to

Small push - subscribe to topic from reply, threaded view bug fixes, resize chat

feeds@yuku.com (alison) — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:47:49 GMT

We recently had a small push where several bug fixes and minor updates were released. You may have already noticed some of these, but if not here they are:

Numerous threaded view bugs fixed
Subscribe to topic added to reply page and quick reply box
Check all box added to advanced search
Check all box added to mimic forums form
Translatable text on all posting forms
Mark all forums/social bookmarks added to top...

Yuku Help Ticket System Technical Issues

feeds@yuku.com (Yuku Team) — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:37:48 GMT

The Yuku Help Ticket System is experiencing technical difficulties. At this time Helpdesk generated emails are not being sent out.

We are working to resolve this issue as soon as possible. We apologize for this inconvenience and thank you for your patience as we work to resolve this issue.

New way to search, play and share videos on Yuku

feeds@yuku.com (Yuku Team) — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:03:22 GMT

The Yuku rich text editor just got richer.

Today Yuku is adding a one-click video embed feature to the rich text editor used for forum posts and blogs. The tool works with APIs from YouTube and from Clipbast to let you search and preview videos from the world's largest video libraries and embed videos right in your blog or message board posts.

You no longer need to leave your blog or message board thread to find that perfect piece of video to put in...

last week's server issues resolved / new issues

feeds@yuku.com (alison) — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:02:37 GMT

The server issues of the past few days have now been resolved. At this point in time all servers are up.

If you have access problems from this point onwards, please report it in one of these topics:
white pages or timing out and extreme slowness

Network Downtime

feeds@yuku.com (Yuku Team) — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:20:51 GMT

We are experiencing technical difficulties network-wide. We hope to be up and running asap.

White pages

feeds@yuku.com (Ransom) — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:10:35 GMT

We have been experiencing server issues today with random urls leading to white pages. We are working to fix this as fast as we can.

Network Slowness / White Pages

feeds@yuku.com (Yuku Team) — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 08:16:38 GMT

Last night we had a switch that failed. We are in the process of redirecting all traffic to fail over equipment. You might experience slowness and or white pages while we do this.

We appreciate your patience while our technicians work to correct this issue.

Help Ticket System Down

feeds@yuku.com (Yuku Team) — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:10:29 GMT

The help ticket system is currently down. A technician is working on getting it back up asap.

In the meantime, please check the Help Wiki http://help.yuku.com for assistance with user/admin questions, Skins http://skins.yuku.com for profile/community skinning questions, or Support

Daylight Saving begins in the U.S. March 9, 2008

feeds@yuku.com (Kathy) — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:15:42 GMT

To all administrators and users:

Daylight Saving time begins in US Sunday Morning, March 9 at 2 am.

This means you will need to adjust your board's time just as you would adjust clocks in your home.

The board adjustment can be made in Community Settings - Display Preferences
The user account adjustment can be made in Account - Settings - Time Zone

If you are in the Eastern time zone: Adjust your board time to time zone -4.
If you are in...

Updates to chat

feeds@yuku.com (alison) — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:46:26 GMT

We have just pushed some small changes to the chatroom software. You should now find the following:

The maximum character limit has been changed from 300 to 500 characters
The spacing of the lines has been reduced to fit more text onto the page
The history will no longer appear when new members enter the chatroom

In our next main push you'll also get the ability to resize the chatroom window.

code of conduct

feeds@yuku.com (alison) — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:48:37 GMT

This forum is for users and potential users of ezboard and yuku. All are welcome to read this forum, and members may post. We expect that all members of this forum will behave in a way that is respectful to the staff and other members of this forum. Discussions will be conducted in a civil and mature way.

The following guidelines outline behaviour that is not acceptable on these forums.

Harrassment - We will not tolerate insults,...

Chat has now been updated - both hardward and software

feeds@yuku.com (alison) — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:54:38 GMT

Chat is now up and running on all boards. Please delete and recreate your chatrooms to reset them.

You will notice that you no longer have a chat security page in your control panel. This has been made into a global control to eliminate the problems that we were having.

Sound should now be working, however I have left a note for the developers...

Chat server down

feeds@yuku.com (Yuku Team) — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:11:06 GMT

Technicians are working on replacing the hardware. Chat may be down for a few days.

Introducing the newest addition to the Yuku team: Cameron Shaw

feeds@yuku.com (Yuku Team) — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:06:37 GMT

With all the changes going on at Yuku, it's time to introduce the newest addition to the Yuku team: Cameron Shaw.

Cameron, who goes by the Yuku screen name CammoWest, joins the Yuku team in the San Francisco office. Prior to joining Yuku, he was at KickApps in New York, where he worked on some of the new features in the recent KickApps 3.0 release.

A native Californian, Cameron grew up in San Francisco and...

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