[Alex]

Sent on 8/16/2011:

I've been negligent on sending out any site updates this year, and figured now was as good a time as any. The summer riding season has been fully underway for awhile, and I'm seeing more and more interesting ride reports, including group rides organized right here on our site. It's been a little while since our last user update, and in those past 7 or 8 months, membership and activity has continued to thrive here on the site. We're approaching 7,000 members and almost 300,000 posts, and I'd reckon a handful of them are even worthwhile! :-) Based on some great suggestions of our members, there have been a handful of new subforums created that are all receiving high levels of traffic. I'd like to thank each of you for helping make this site a fun and useful one for all of us, whether we're chatting about our ninjettes or debating less important subjects. And really, just about everything is less important than our motorcycles, when it comes right down to it.

I wanted to give a quick plug for the re-implemented Member Map. It has several new features that our old one didn't, including the ability to easily search for nearby riders a number of different ways. Please check it out and add yourself to this new one if you haven't already, it only takes a moment:

http://www.ninjette.org/forums/showthread.php?t=11545

As always, I want to give a quick plug for the areas of the site that don't tend to get as much traffic (only because I think they could attract more if more folks knew about 'em...)

The first one is a reminder about our NinjetteWiki. There should be a link to it at the top of just about all of the pages on our site, but it can be reached directly at:

http://wiki.ninjette.org

For some background on our wiki along with instructions on how to use it, check out this launch thread:

http://www.ninjette.org/forums/showthread.php?t=20820

Any of us can go in and add pages as we wish, edit pages that are out there, comment on existing pages, etc. It's a user-driven resource just like any other wiki that can become anything we want it to be. I continue to get rave reviews via emails and pm's from folks who have found what they needed in the wiki, but I know that can be so much better over time.

On top of our well-known Forums structure, we also have a place for our users to set up their own Blogs. Like the NinjetteWiki, there is a link to the Blogs area at the top of most site pages. A few of us have used this to some success, but it is clear that it's not terribly well-traveled compared to the rest of the site. If you want to see the blogs that are out there, here's a direct link:

http://www.ninjette.org/forums/blog.php?do=bloglist

On perhaps a much less useful but perhaps more entertaining note, I last wanted to put in a plug for our on-site Arcade. 150+ different games, and the highscores are saved so we can all compete against each other for bragging rights. Here's a direct link to the arcade:

http://www.ninjette.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=33

Best regards,
- Alex
www.ninjette.org

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