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Group Buys have been added to the right hand bar.

Now any specific to your model (done by prefixing) will show up automatically. Down point is if the GB is for multiple models, there is no way to tag it with multiple prefixes.

Working on a way around this

Spent a rather enjoyable day (yeah right) going through Wikipedia getting a list of all FIATs made since WW2.

Then spent an even more enjoyable time getting a thumbnail of each of them and adding them to the classifieds as a category each (Cars, Parts and Parts Wanted) - so now when it comes to...

My goodness these few days have been busy for me

I'd like to introduce the newest FF feature - drum roll ...... a new "Members Motors" bar which appears at the top of each models forum and lists the latest threads for the specific model (with thumbnails!)

No longer do you have to flick over...

The right hand bar has now been polished up a fair bit and now uses the system "thread read" markers to display listings.

What does this mean?

Simply - if you havent' looked at a classified ad, then it will stay bolded until you do (it used to only bold all ads placed within the last 24 hours)...

From now on, it is a requirement that all adverts posted to the classifieds (be they for sale or wanted ads) have the following fields entered:

Location
Phone Number
Postcode

This is to help not only with usefulness of the ads, but also as a (basic) security measure.

In the case of...

For as long as I can remember, we had a lock on gallery images so that once they'd been uploaded, they couldn't be removed.

This was done, so we weren't left with loads of little red X's on the forum as people deleted linked images.

Of course the downside to all this was, images that hadn't...

I couldn't think of a better title hehe ...

If you are selling a car on the classifieds now, everything has just got a whole lot better!

The advert style now mirrors the e-bay listing format, so when you place your ad - you've got a nice selection of drop downs and checkboxes to choose...

In my seemingly never ending quest to get the classifieds up to top spec, I've been working hard over the weekend (in between throwing up with sickness, how dedicated am I?!?!) to get a WYSIWYG implementation working.

I'm happy to say it's now done, so from this moment forth, you will get a...

Note: It's only in early beta now as I'm hungry and don't have time to smart it up and make it look pretty

But hopefully now we have got around the issue of people complaining no one looks inside the classifieds - basically, when you go to a forum listing now (which has a tied in...

We had the issue before where people providing links to individual posts would have their links invalidated if they had a custom "posts per page" setting.

This has now been fixed, so all links to post numbers will now work - regardless of what your setting is

You can now stay up to date with FIAT Forum news by using Twitter (http://www.twitter.com).

Currently I'll just be using it to update you guys when I need to take the forum offline for a bit (how long left, what's going on etc) - but I'm sure in the future I can make it a lot more...

Finally an update has been released which allows the gallery flash uploader to work again under Flash 10

I've just tested it and all seems well - sorry about the wait, they took blooming ages to sort that one out!

This is more of an update of an old feature rather than anything else, but there is now an even easier way to insert gallery images into your posts.

Simply use the icon which is now in the toolbar for both new threads and quick...

Well chaps, in an effort to make the Leisure Lounge a bit more friendly and useful a new change is upon us.

Inspired by my trip to New York, please welcome the Spamalot forum (http://www.fiatforum.com/spamalot) which has arrived to take all the junk posts from the LL and keep them all in...

The old rules listing was basically a bit crap and didn't explain anything too well - thus it was time for an overhaul and overhaul we did.

Updated so it's now completely up to date and covers quite a new things, including advertising issues (which had been quite ambiguos before).

Hopefully...

In further link related news, I've gone through and cleaned up the links directory - moving incorrectly places ones and deleted dead ones.

So now we have a nice fresh usable directory - hurrah!

What I would like to ask then is if you have a useful link, could you submit it for me. It would be...

After waiting around a billion years for this, we've finally got hold of a decent garage mod.

It's still in beta and has loads to be added (and the look somewhat changed) - however the main functionality is there, so what better time than the present to get stuck in.

Please report any bugs you...

I know it's not the most popular of areas on the site, but I'd like to try and make it a bit more useful and have therefore got the Links Manager upgraded to the latest version.

I'll now be screening all added links first before letting them on too, so that we won't get inundated with junk -...

Finally brought the homepage up to date with the missing boxes that had been present on the old one.

Alternating between a text list and non to try and break up the busyness, so we've now got the classifieds search back - as well as a random images block.

There's still uberloads of real estate...

Got rid of the portal page we used to have as an entry page, to replace it with the standard forum listing.

Have integrated some of the original portal info down the right though, so hopefully now more people will see it.

By no means complete (still gotta get the classifieds search back on and...