The upgrade is complete. There is a known bug that is causing the "Load More" button to be inoperative and may cause password resets to fail. The developers should have a fix out in a week or two.

As I mentioned yesterday, pictures will now display in your posts. They still need to be hosted elsewhere and I highly recommend http://postimage.org for that. Please use the new "Image Wizard" menu option above to get started with posting images on this site.

Here's a picture of my cat Chauncey, who at this very moment is draped across my arms and making it difficult to type.

Pictures are automatically displayed at a reduced size in your post. To see Chauncey at full size just click on the picture. A window or tab will open with the original, full-size version displayed. When you are done, just close the window or tab.

When you put the html for your image in your post, it should look something like this:
<img src="http://s16.postimg.org/4badcbx79/chauncey.jpg" width="640" height="480">
Notice that you only need to use the HTML img tag. The program will turn it into a link automatically, so you don't need to do that yourselves.

See the section in the Image Wizard labeled "Tips For Posting Images". Please read those tips before you post your first image. IMPORTANT: Posting pictures that have not been resized for the web will only make the board sluggish, so as I say in the instructions in the Image Wizard, "BE KIND, RESIZE!!!"

Hopefully you won't run into to many problems with this upgrade, but if you do find something wrong, please let me know immediately.

If all goes well each board should only be down for about 15 minutes. One
of the new features will be the ability to add pictures to your posts. If
you run into any problems after the upgrade please let me know.

You may be experiencing problems either displaying this website or logging into it. According to my web host, they are aware that there is a problem and they are working to fix it as quickly as possible. It is affecting many other websites, not just ours. I appreciate your patience and I'll let you know when it has been resolved.

@lookwhatbobfound ...spelling correction noted and fixed.

@gordon ...I'll take you up on your offer. You will of course receive full credit for any articles you post. I'll give you and anyone else who is interested their own login with full "author" privileges, so you will be posting your own articles and they will have your name on it. You can either use a pseudonym, or your actual name...whatever you want.

If you go to http://www.chatroomboard.com you will see that it is still quite unfinished. The walls are up, but there's no furniture, so to speak. That's where I need your help. I need a paragraph or two, or maybe a short history, about each of the boards. I need keywords and phrases that people using the search engines would enter. I will also be looking for volunteers who would like to engage their journalistic tendencies, regarding pottery and/or auctions of course, to contribute articles periodically. That way there will be even more for search engines to latch onto. These articles will be the first thing people see when they bring up the site and it will be a way to keep it fresh. The information about each of the boards will be on a separate page and the search engines will have no trouble finding that info.