- Using the LiveWire Google Gadget no longer makes you appear active nor does it give away your session id. Both are were considered security issues.

- Added "Windows 7" to the list of operating systems in profiles

- Issue that caused incorrect headers when viewing "Alerts" if you were not signed into LiveWire

- Issue that sent moderators back to page 1 of moderation reports when clicking "Expand" on pages higher than 1

Artist Banana KC made this smiley for LiveWire:

It's called "refined" and this is what it looks like

You can add it by typing ": refined :" without the spaces in your posts, private messages, etc.

"m" --> Now bolds the username and turns the name green in addition to linking to the member's profile

"mod" --> New tag that does the same as "m" using moderator blue

"admin" --> New tag that does the same as "m" using admin red

- Support leaders who move their own topics will now be logged correctly

- Fixed incorrectly formatted links in messages sent after uploading new avatars

You can now ignore all new alerts with a single click.

In this forum only members who have been active for fewer than 90 days may create topics, add replies, or vote in polls.

LiveWire is a safe place for everyone to share stories, ideas, and opinions. However, some new members can feel at a disadvantage as they enter such a large and vibrant community. Thus, it is for this reason that we have a forum dedicated to new members.

We feel that it is important for new members to have the opportunity to establish themselves and that the Fresh Members forum gives them a platform upon which to meet other new members and take their first steps to becoming active, supportive members of the LiveWire community.

Everyone may browse the Fresh Members forum. Topics made in this forum will not be viewable in Fresh Topics unless you are a moderator.

Unlike the New Members & Introductions, this new forum is designed for serious debate and will not be cluttered by introductions.

Issue could have allowed spammers to send unwanted emails from LiveWire's servers.

Moderators can now view a member's eHelp replies as a list much like My Posts works for topics. Anonymous replies are not shown. This will help us track support leader eHelp participation.

Issue caused certain types of images with embedded meta data to display as "file not found"

As long as you have cookies enabled, LiveWire will no longer "forget" that you have viewed a recent announcement.

If you clear you cookies after each session the announcement will of course flash again.

LiveWire has now caught up and processed all the external images that were posted over the past 48 hours.

The page was displaying active guests rather than active notives, and it was showing IP addresses. Nothing about it was right.

This will encourage me to fix more bugs and not post as many bug fixes in LiveZillas.

Members can now display just topics from the support forums, in other words, everywhere but teen Deep Thoughts & Random Musings.

You'll find the setting in "My Account" --> "Appearance"

Sorry moderators, your position makes it so we can't let you use this option.

- We now fully support https links and they will be automatically recognized

- Reduced the number of steps needed to identify web links in posts, making the site load a little faster

- Fixed bugs pertaining to links inside quotes

- Fixed issue that caused some links not to automatically turn into links

- Fixed other miscellaneous bugs with links

You could already message your mutual friends, but now you can also just select to message your online mutual friends.

Credit "The Prodigy" for this idea

Issue caused it to appear that there were always fresh new ideas, even if you had voted for all of the ideas. Now once you vote for every idea, it will turn gray again.

When a poll is archived LiveWire automatically stops accepting new votes. However, previously you wouldn't know until after you clicked "Vote" which wasted your time.

Credit BoXLunch for this idea

You must now enter your password to change your email address, this prevents a friend from walking by you computer and changing your email address. If they succeeded, that could have taken over your account from the comfort of their own home after receiving the verification email.

Credit robbie123 for the idea

Previously you had to go to edit your friends, add friend, and select "block" then click "add friend" which is too many steps.

If the menu doesn't work, you need to clear your web browser's cache.

Credit Seanee for this idea

Issue caused it to forget either the page it was on, or what it was sorting by.

You can now sort it by the following: Date Added, Most Popular, and Least Popular

Total of 8 changes to database access code made to improve efficiency.

Previously the green dots would disappear after you viewed the page, but now they will only go away once you vote on a suggestion.

Credit goes to "wcm wrestling" for this suggestion

When you block a member from messaging you or writing on your whiteboard, you used to be able to write on their whiteboard and send the member private messages. This is no longer the case, now you would need to unblock them.

Due to complaints about the alerts feature "not working" I have extended the expiration date for alerts.

Now if you scroll to the bottom of a busy group bulletin, you'll see an orange "Show All Posts" button that will display all posts, including those above the normal 40 post cutoff limit.

Moderators will now see the titles that members give their images as they are approving them. This will help them better judge an image's overall appropriateness, and will result in more images being approved.

You can now sort by the following: Most Recently Added, Most Popular, and Least Popular