Also, thank you for coming to my forum - I'm super happy that everyone wanted to join this little project of mine! Seriously, you guys are all the best!
But I'm sure that you all also would like to meet new people, get more characters in the forum, etc. To that end, I'm planning on advertising... soon. This weekend. I mean, I feel like I keep putting it off, but I just want to make sure everything is perfect before I invite the whole world. Hopefully I'll finally be satisfied tomorrow. (Or is it later today for you? Specifying relative times is difficult at this time of night...)
In any event, I wanted to point out some of the things that I've been doing, just so you know. You guys have all probably noticed already that I've got group pics showing which empire you belong to now. I also added flags to show you which boards have new posts (partly because I couldn't think of a better idea for that...).
And I just now came up with some coding that will turn your instant messenger info (ProBoards is set up for AIM, ICQ, YIM, and Skype) into a handy little icon on both your profile and mini-profile - before it would only show these things on your profile and only the raw data instead of being an icon you can click. And you don't need to worry if you don't want this to show up for the whole internet - I've set it up so that these links will only show up for people who are logged in (though I may set it up so that does appear for everyone if you're staff...). If you don't know where you put these in, just got to where you edit your profile, and then click on the Social section. Instant messenger stuff is at the bottom of that page.
I'm also almost done with an ad for the site and I plan on getting a chatbox installed before I invite the world. Also, I need to make the navbar a dropdown menu, because I need that even if nobody else does.
Anyway - if you'd like to give me feedback on anything - please! Feel free to send me a PM. Or maybe an IM - feel free to bother me there too.