Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations Forum Changes tonight.....

Hello everyone!
Great news!....
Our website team, led by TJ Hudson (teehjaeh57), has prepared some very cool changes for the forum and other parts of the website.
Here's the plan.
Tonight, at 9:30 pm, the forum will be shut down for maintenance. It will be back up by 6 a.m. in the morning.
We're adding several new forum topics under the heading "Acreage" These new topics will open opportunities to share what we are doing with our property from topics about docks to cabins to special projects.
There will be another new set of topics related specifically to species of fish such as bass, bluegill, catfish....etc.
There will be a new category for posting photos. It will be much easier and our software company assures us they are working to make photo posting even easier in the near future. For now, there will be a special image gallery section to post your pictures either similar to how you've done or with a link to images which will be stored on our server. TJ will explain all that inside the image gallery section.
Lastly, we're adding more content in the form of articles. We're starting with 5 or 6 articles that have been published in past issues of Pond Boss. We'll add to that content regularly. I think TJ has archived more than 60 articles from PB that will make their way into the article category.
Our mission is two-fold. We want to grow our Pond Boss family by improving our search engine optimization techniques in an effort to reach 10,000 paid subscribers to the magazine and to offer more content for those folks looking for something specific.
Lastly, TJ is working on the ambassador program and the field correspondent program.
Good things on the horizon.
Fish on!
Bob Lusk

sounds great, I cant wait!

Looking forward to it!

What!! I can't look at the forums tonight!? What as I going to do now? I will have severe withdrawal pains until tomorrow morning!

Can't wait to see it tomorrow. thanks for all you do!

I guess we will have to watch Tv...

NCIS is on tonight! Not all bad news.

Neat-o! Awsome! Coool!

And, it will be happening during my sleep time!

dont forget the GSF category!!!

thanks bob, congrats on the progress.

Cool beans (I know, I know -- that's Lusk-ese)!! Can't wait.

OH NO, CHANGE, I'm gonna have to be retrained.

No retraining! It's more like adding more paper to the roll.

Now thats better than reading bathroom humor!

This is a long-term request.

I'm guessing that a lot of us use -- I don't even know what to call it (Blackberries, I-Phones, SmartPhones, etc.) -- but, basically a cellphone with Internet capability.

Some sites are much better than others when using mobile devices. The current Pond Boss forum is somewhere in the middle. Not bad, but not real easy to read and use.

As we advance in technology, it would be great if the Pond Boss site could be a little more friendly towards mobile devices.

Anyway, just a thought . . .

I should have posted this a while ago, but most of the time I just expect sites to be difficult on my little screen.

I am looking forward to the new forum, even if it doesn't work perfectly on my phone.

Thanks Bob and crew.

Sounds GREAT!! Cant wait. Look forward to the extra stuff. And thanks to everyone who is putting in the time to make the site even better. A BIG thumbs up to you all!!

It's going to be a lonely, lonely night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Are we going to be like kids at Christmas and not be able to sleep tonight?

Hoping all goes well with no major glitches.

I worked from midnight to eight, no PBF. I had to watch the Braves beat the Phillies on mlb.com. Looks like the changes are worth the night off. Good Job!!

Changes look great... I like all the new sub forums.

Looking good.

And picture uploading is a cinch! Whoopie! Thanks Bob, TJ, and all the others that helped make this website even better!

Congratulations. It looks like it went flawlessly.

I really appreciate it when web sites can make changes the way this was implemented. Even with very substantial improvements, there is barely a change to the overall look and feel that we've all become comfortable with.

Cat, I use my mobile for viewing posts too. Nearly everything I read on the forum is through my phone anymore. Personally, I like that I don't have to open the browser in order to read posts. Browsers on phones take a long time and drain your battery quickly. I wouldn't be able to read as much as I do if I had to do this every time. There are other forums, BBG is one, where I simply wait to get to a PC where I can pull it up off my email to view, instead of using my mobile. What do you think would improve this feature? I already think it's pretty "mobile-friendly", but what did you have in mind?

I would just like to say I think the changes are great, and kudos to Bob, tj, and anyone else involved. These are a few more steps that must be takes to make pondboss a household name, well at least in the fishing world.

I would like to suggest, and dont know if it currently exists, but what about either a one time fee, to access old issues of PB, like in the PDF form like the free one on the main page to download and try If you are affraid that people wont subscribe to the magizine if they can pay a one time fee to read it online, make it where all issues up to 5 years ago are on it. Thus when the June/July 2010 issue comes out in the mail, the June/July issuse of 2005 comes on the internet??? or some variation of this idea. (Im not sure how old the mag is but im pretty sure its at least 5 years old.)

The new forum looks great Bob, great job TJ.

Nice! Really TOP Notch!!!

Question: Is there, or can there be a way, maybe in the future to directly post pdf files directly from my computer?