5:14am: I’ve been working on this all night and into the morning, and it’s the culmination of many weeks of intensive research and coding, but you guys are in for a pleasant surprise. We are in the proccess of transitioning over to a new URL and with a new forum. The core of HFL will remain intact with the change, however the URL will no longer direct to holdemforaliving.com/blog. There will be a new URL, which marks a totally new version of the server software that I run to use HFL. With this change, we are upgrading from PHP 4 to PHP 5, which should result in speedier performance.

But what you really want to know about is the new forum, right? With good reason. This new forum is a significant improvement over the forum that you have been using for the last 3 months. Tired of the slashes whenever you tried to use quotes? Those are gone. So what else is new with this new forum:

1. Ability to quote a portion of a post
2. Avatars (pictures)
3. Signatures (both picture and text)
4. Public user profiles complete with contact information
5. Personal Messaging System
6. Ranking system for the most frequent posters
7. Many more flexible options than previous version
8. Much more attractive than previous forum
9. Rich text (WYSIWYG) Editor
10. Ability to insert images into posts.

Much, much, much more!

I’m just as excited as you are. There will be a transitional period where some links might point to the old HFL until I am able to fix the problem. That’s because although it’s the same, it’s a whole new website in itself. Don’t worry though, nothing you love is changing. But you can bet we are improving.

Keep checking back this morning for the new changes.

-trujm