Wow, I woke up today to see five posts in the tracker with new activity! I can't tell you how awesome that is to me. You folks have just made my day. I know I tend to get a bit over dramatic when the visits/activity are down. I won't bore you with the psychological reasons behind that but will try to keep it under control in the future. When things are going good around here I'm horribly embarrassed by all the whiney posts. Need to try and keep a happy face on.

I ran into a forum for people who run forums the other day and have been reading it whenever the kids give me a chance. There's lots of great ideas there and I'm hoping I can use them to really get things going here. One of the things they suggested was a newsletter like you said, Boris. I'll get simplenews set up on here and see how it goes. Not sure about turning it on by default unless I can make it so there's a checked box you can uncheck at registration. I know I hate getting emails from sites that I didn't ask for and don't want to be annoying people.

Roadangel - Thanks for coming back. I've been thinking about you lately and wondering if I should send you an email. You can subscribe to things on this site. If you look at the first post, it says "Subscribe". Click on that and it will open and there's a bunch of options. Given the low level of activity on this site, though, I'm going to look into setting it up so you can get notified when anything gets posted rather than having to subscribe to each post / forum. TBH, I haven't really looked at that from the user's end much. I have an Opera shortcut set up to go to the "what's new" page so I can see everything at a glance and go there, um, well, way more than I want to admit to.

Boris - Thanks for stopping by. I know you don't live around here but feel free to join anyway if you want to chat.

Michelle