Kell Posted May 15, 2008 Posted May 15, 2008 (edited) With the upgrade, we 've got several dandy new features and we thought it might be a nice idea to put one of them into practice when it comes to birthdays. At present, a new thread gets started up with birthday/anniversary wishes, but sometimes members haven't been around for a while and don't see their birthday wishes. From now on, please put all birthday/anniversary wishes on the member's profile messages. They will receive an alert in their email teling them someone has left them a message - so your good wishes won't be missed. And you never know - it might remind a few of our absentee members that we're here and tempt them back. Edited May 16, 2008 by Kell Quote
Mia Posted May 15, 2008 Posted May 15, 2008 Kell, do you mean instead of starting a birthday thread in general chat? Aw, I feel a bit sad about that, as I think it's nice for people to get a whole thread devoted to them with people wishing them a happy birthday! Quote
Kell Posted May 15, 2008 Author Posted May 15, 2008 Yes Mia - instead of starting a thread for them. Just think though - you get all those lovely messages on your profile and they can stay there, whereas the birthday threads get removed after a little while. And there's the added bonus that when it's on your profile, you get a notification in your email to tell you you have a message, whereas with a new thread, you might not notice until ages after your birthday has passed. Quote
Louiseog Posted May 15, 2008 Posted May 15, 2008 But who will remind us whose birthday it is? I will forget to look for other people's birthdays I mean. I need a prompt!!! (and my family will agree I'm rubbish at cards too) Quote
Kell Posted May 15, 2008 Author Posted May 15, 2008 And what makes it even easier is that you can just click on the person's name when it comes up at the bottom and you get taken straight to their profile. Quote
angelofboox Posted May 15, 2008 Posted May 15, 2008 On another forum I frequent we just have one thread called The Birthday Thread, the first post of which lists everyone's birthdays. And then people post in it to wish whoever's birthday might come along It's neat and tidy and reminds people of others' birthdays when they're checking threads. It's always nice for people to get birthday wishes in their profile messages though Quote
Michelle Posted May 15, 2008 Posted May 15, 2008 It's rather time consuming for us to try to list everyone's birthday, keep it updated etc.. when the software tells us anyway. Quote
Weave Posted May 15, 2008 Posted May 15, 2008 I think a profile message will be nice, as said already, you can keep it and it is always nice to get nice wee messages Quote
Janet Posted May 15, 2008 Posted May 15, 2008 I think a profile message will be nice, as said already, you can keep it and it is always nice to get nice wee messages I agree - it will be lovely to look back at the messages again in future. Quote
madcow Posted May 15, 2008 Posted May 15, 2008 I like the idea of keeping birthday wishes to your profile , something to look back on. Quote
Echo Posted May 15, 2008 Posted May 15, 2008 I think it's a wonderful idea! You can keep your birthday messages forever! Quote
Mia Posted May 15, 2008 Posted May 15, 2008 Can we do all the smilies on the profile messages? Because I usually use or and I can't see the smilie menu. Do you have to know the symbols and type them in? (I did put in a because it's a simple one that I know, but I didn't want to muck up Angel's messages!) Sorry if I've completely missed it and it's staring me in the face. Quote
Michelle Posted May 16, 2008 Posted May 16, 2008 When you first mentioned it, I spent ages searching for a mod or something to add smilies to the editor for visitor messages. And all you have to do is press the 'advanced' button! Thanks Laura! Quote
Inver Posted May 16, 2008 Posted May 16, 2008 Good idea....everyone likes to get personal messages....just like getting a letter through the letter box Quote
Heather Posted May 16, 2008 Posted May 16, 2008 it's a great idea and to be able to add smillies to you message is brill Quote
Laramie Posted May 18, 2008 Posted May 18, 2008 you can get told when you get a message? *hurries along to check settings* Quote
kernow_reader Posted June 9, 2008 Posted June 9, 2008 From now on, please put all birthday/anniversary wishes on the member's profile messages. They will receive an alert in their email teling them someone has left them a message - so your good wishes won't be missed. And you never know - it might remind a few of our absentee members that we're here and tempt them back. Ha! Exactly what it did to me Yes, today is a *big* birthday for me and having received a lovely greeting from Book Club Forum here I sit baited back I'm going to join in the Jane Austen reading club and the general classics one. I know I have a copy of Mansfield Park here somewhere amongst my books! Quote
Michelle Posted June 9, 2008 Posted June 9, 2008 How lovely to have you back! You aren't showing as having a birthday on the front page though.. is it in your profile? Quote
kernow_reader Posted June 9, 2008 Posted June 9, 2008 How lovely to have you back! You aren't showing as having a birthday on the front page though.. is it in your profile? Hmm, I have no idea. . . That's no idea in general about anything to do with anything at all never mind what's in my profile Ha! However I do know that I share my day with Johnny Depp (birthday that is not literal day). Thanks Michelle. Quote
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