Welcome To The New Indie Threads
It’s been a long time coming (more than a year) but you are now looking at the brand spankin’ new Indie Threads. Let me give you a little bit of a run down on what’s new, what’s different, and what’s still to come.
What’s New
To put it short, everything is new. Indie Threads is now completely powered by WordPress. I’m using WordPress MU along with Buddypress to run the new community. Before Indie Threads was running on a poorly built CMS that I haphazardly threw together without thinking much about the future. Now, it’s pretty much future proof.
What’s Different
Because everything about the site is new, pretty much everything about the site is different. …Sort of. The site still has the basic concept – Find your favorite independent shops and make friends with them. The things that are different are the way things are run. The blog is now run via WordPress and is much more flexible. The user profiles are much more flexible and that if you users want a new feature it won’t take me months of hacking away to implement it (hopefully).
You can link to your website, your twitter, and your facebook vie the ‘edit profile’ page. You can, if you really want to, delete your account. You can decide what kind, if any, notifications you’d like to receive from your ‘settings’ page. And you can display your latest tweets on your wall via the ‘settings’ page.
What’s Still To Come
One of the things that I was a little disappointed with about this new system is that there isn’t currently a way to have photo albums. It’s a feature that should be released soon, but until then, you won’t be able to display your photos.
Another thing that I’m working on getting to work is having other people keep this blog updated. As you might have noticed I’m not the most consistent blogger in the world. So, if you’re interested in helping out with this blog, please let me know.
One last thing: if you notice anything weird that you think might be a bug with the site, please let me know.
