As you may have noticed, we’ve made a few additional changes to how site search works. You can now choose whether to search within posts only, or within both posts and replies. When you click in the search box, a small popup will appear that lets you select the option you want. The default selection [...]
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September 14, 2011
Flag Free Friday
By ybm in news |
Ever since we added the ability to flag posts, we’ve gotten many (in fact, nothing but!) complaints from users about being flagged or banned unfairly. Starting Friday, we’re going to temporarily remove the flagging function while we explore other options. In the mean time, we’re wondering if this sentiment is unanimous across the board. We’d [...]
June 14, 2011
Shop at Amazon, Support YouBeMom
By ybm in news |
We’ve always disliked the idea of running ads on YBM. Internet advertising tends to be distracting, annoying, decreases site responsiveness, and offers little benefit to the end user. However, running the site does cost money, and it would be great to have a little money coming in to help cover our expenses. After some consideration, [...]
February 24, 2011
YouBeMom is Out of Beta
By ybm in beta |
We’re excited to announce that the latest version of YouBeMom has moved out of the public beta phase and is live! Thanks to our beta users for the invaluable feedback and testing you’ve provided. If you didn’t get a chance to try the beta release, here’s a brief recap of some of the notable changes: [...]
February 22, 2011
Say It Like You Mean It
By ybm in beta |
For those moments when CAPS LOCK just doesn’t quite cut it, we’ve added the ability to bold and italicize the text in your posts. If you frequent other Internet forums, you might already be familiar with the BBCode format that we’re using. For complete details on how to format your posts, you can read our [...]
January 31, 2011
Search is No Longer a Big Pile of Suck
By ybm in beta |
We know that between the intermittent outages, lack of support for multiple keyword searches, and inability to search more than 6 months back, the search function has left a lot to be desired. After a memory upgrade and some tweaks to the search engine over the weekend, we’ve made several much-needed improvements:
January 20, 2011
Mother Flagger!
By ybm in beta |
We’ve seen a lot of comments about the new flagging system we’re testing on beta, so we wanted to clarify a few things about it. Flagging is intended to be used to identify abusive behavior on the forum. It is not a tool for voicing your disagreement about whether all chaps are, in fact, assless. [...]
January 18, 2011
Beta Patch Released
By ybm in beta |
We pushed out a patch to the beta release this afternoon to address several issues and incorporate some user feedback including: liking both posts and replies being able to unlike and unflag posts you’ve accidentally clicked removing the fixed minimum width on the forum We’re still working on several other fixes. Please keep the feedback [...]
January 14, 2011
Beta Release Feedback
By ybm in beta |
Thanks to everyone for giving the beta release a try and providing your feedback. We’ve gotten a lot of feedback and we appreciate all of it, good and bad. Sorry if we’re not able to directly respond to your comments on the feedback board. We’re going through all the comments to figure out how best [...]
January 12, 2011
A New Year, A New Release
By ybm in news |
Happy New Year everyone! It only took a year and a half, but we’re excited to open the latest version of YBM for beta testing! Some of you are probably already freaking out, but we hope you understand our goal has always been to try to do what’s best for the site and community. Sometimes [...]
