Anyone whose ever had a blog here read please!

[Steven P. Administrators]

With the upgrade to IPB 3.4 we will be discontinuing Blogs, 3.4 is scheduled to land sometime before the end of the year and if all goes well, we'll be upgrading in January. So there's ample time to save any content in your blog, should you want it.

Do it now! :p

Blogs take away significant resources that could be better used elsewhere, we'll make sure there is an added perk or substitute for subscribers when that time comes, but as it stands there has only been 11 entries submitted to blogs in the past six months. :p

[articuno1au]

Good call.

[Rappy Veteran]

They will go down in Neowin history :p

[+Xinok Subscriber²]

Aww. :( There were a few members whose posts I thoroughly enjoyed reading. But I understand that it's a waste of resources for something so few people use.

[Detection]

Blind or ignorant, I only realised there was a blog yesterday

[Rappy Veteran]

Aww. :( There were a few members whose posts I thoroughly enjoyed reading. But I understand that it's a waste of resources for something so few people use.

I remember James7 and Hurmoth had blogs I enjoyed reading

[redvamp128]

We actually had BLOGS???

[Jeston Veteran]

We actually had BLOGS???

I believe it is (was) a subscriber benefit ;)

[+Majesticmerc MVC]

If it means better Neowin I'm all for it. The blogs are a nice feature, for the few people who wrote and read them, but they are rarely updates from what I've seen.

[Shadrack]

I think I posted a few things to my "blog" here. Honestly, I thought that just about anything I would want to write on here would be better seen if placed in the proper forum. The only thing I could think of using my blog for is just to rant so I didn't end up using it much.

[~Johnny]

I suppose they weren't really used all that much, but I typically enjoyed reading +Dr_Asik's posts. It's nice to read technical stuff written by someone who knows what they're talking about.

[Steven P. Administrators]

I suppose they weren't really used all that much, but I typically enjoyed reading +Dr_Asik's posts. It's nice to read technical stuff written by someone who knows what they're talking about.

We need that sort of stuff in our forums too :p

[remixedcat]

do you have a test board? if so how's the beta going for you?

[Steven P. Administrators]

We do, and there's nothing to report atm because we won't start adding hacks and a skin to it until it's final. Subs will get a test drive shortly before launch, but that probably won't be before January.

[RadishTM Veteran]

Good stuff, will keep the forum much leaner (Y)

[evieluvsrainbows]

Okay, we understand. I'm sorry to hear that you will be discontinuing blogs. But you gotta do what you gotta do to make this as fast as possible. We need Neowin to be the fastest. Not the slowest. I don't like slow. Slow is as slow as a turtle trying to walk across land. :D But make sure when you upgrade, you keep all the themes like Pegasus, Darkside, Green, Midnight as well as Pro. :) Those are all the themes that we can switch between. And trust me, all of them look very good.

[_neutrino Veteran]

any planned design updates with the roll out of 3.4? any new features to expect?

[Rappy Veteran]

any planned design updates with the roll out of 3.4? any new features to expect?

Do you mean the forums or the blogs?

[_neutrino Veteran]

Sorry, should have specified, meant the forum as a whole. I tried to search for a changelog between versions however, i came up empty handed.

[Raa]

Good decision, hopefully that will speed Neowin up a bit! ;)

[4CxbqFxVnstmA Veteran]

I remember James7 and Hurmoth had blogs I enjoyed reading

Wow, I'm seriously touched. Thanks, Rappy.

[The Evil Overlord]

They will go down in Neowin history :p

lol in more ways than one

We do, and there's nothing to report atm because we won't start adding hacks and a skin to it until it's final. Subs will get a test drive shortly before launch, but that probably won't be before January.

OMG He mentioned 'hacks' Someone report him to a moderator quick :p

[+Warwagon MVC]

I was at least 5 of those 11 :D

[Shaun N.]

I only came here to see what warwagon said, I was disappoint.

[+jamesyfx Subscriber²]

I sorta used the blog here but it's something I can easily continue off-site if I wanted to.

In fact if I wrote things people actually wanted to read I'd probably design my own. But it's just the amount of effort required building it. :rofl: