Welcome to the long-promised upgrade to Frumteens.com. After 12 years of outdated software, over 50,000 members, and much promises of upgrades, we have finally done it. This new site is technologically a great improvement over the old one. We have tried to make some content improvements as well.
First, the site now has an official Rav. Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro, whose idea Frumteens.com was twelve years ago, and who was the first frumteens Moderator (there have been many), is going to try to be as active on this site as he was in the early days of frumteens. His Shul maintains a website, where you can find many of his Shiruim, Divrei Torah, and schmuesen.
For the Frumteens forums, we have four other Moderators as well. Taon, Bas-Levi and Kooky are former Frumteens who have been active for many years on the Frumteens site since they were teenagers. Taon and I have been active in the past as Moderators on Frumteens as well.
The controls that protected members on the Frumteens site are present here as well. No contact information will be allowed to be posted; PMs are disabled; member profiles (except for those of the Moderators) - and even member lists - are invisible to other members.
Everyone has been asking about whether the plethora of invaluable information from the old Frumteens site is still available. The answer is YES - The old frumteens site and all its information is still visible - at classic.frumteens.com.
We want to hear feedback about the new site and setup. Please use the Suggestion Box forum freely for that purpose.
Welcome Frumteens!
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, Nov 06 2011 08:59 AM
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sandythedog
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Posted 14 November 2011 - 10:51 PM
Alright guys, this site has had our back for a while now. Let's make this site just as good, if not better, than the last one was. Let's keep posting, showing our spirit of pushing forward and starting, well, slightly a new! As Ohr Naava (brooklyn night seminary) puts it, 'if there was never any change, there would be no butterflies!'
I'm using the same screen name as I had on the other site...don't know what everyone else did lol but either way, if you haven't yet, sign up and jump right in! 'the water's fine!'
I'm using the same screen name as I had on the other site...don't know what everyone else did lol but either way, if you haven't yet, sign up and jump right in! 'the water's fine!'
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Posted 17 November 2011 - 05:02 PM
Just a quick note that I also e-mailed to a moderator: By having changed the old site's address from www.frumteens.com to classic.frumteens.com, you will lose all your "Google" rankings that bring much web traffic and readership to your site. Many people search for specific topics and are lead, by their Google search query, to the frumteens.com website. Since the frumteens site has been around for so many years and has so many diverse topics and threads, it has very high google rankings which lead google to place it high on search results. I know I have found various frumteens discussions through general google searches. I'm sure many others have as well.
This could all be lost if the change isn't done correctly. What I think the best idea would be is to leave (or at this point put back) the old site at www.frumteens.com. You can forward the main page of frumteens.com -- and not ALL the "inside" webpages with the threads and topics -- to the new JewsWithQuestions.com site. This way anyone going to the www.frumteens.com homepage will be redirected here, but anyone who is trying to directly access a frumteens discussion thread through google (or a old link from an external website) will still reach it. And your high google rankings won't be lost since you are keeping the original web addresses for your original site.
Another alternative to my above suggestion is to inform Google that all the www.frumteens.com content is now located at classic.frumteens.com. (This approach will not help with old links on external webpages directly pointing to internal frumteens webpages. But it will help most everything else.) Here is some information on this solution:
http://www.google.co...py?answer=83106
http://www.google.co...py?answer=83105
This could all be lost if the change isn't done correctly. What I think the best idea would be is to leave (or at this point put back) the old site at www.frumteens.com. You can forward the main page of frumteens.com -- and not ALL the "inside" webpages with the threads and topics -- to the new JewsWithQuestions.com site. This way anyone going to the www.frumteens.com homepage will be redirected here, but anyone who is trying to directly access a frumteens discussion thread through google (or a old link from an external website) will still reach it. And your high google rankings won't be lost since you are keeping the original web addresses for your original site.
Another alternative to my above suggestion is to inform Google that all the www.frumteens.com content is now located at classic.frumteens.com. (This approach will not help with old links on external webpages directly pointing to internal frumteens webpages. But it will help most everything else.) Here is some information on this solution:
http://www.google.co...py?answer=83106
http://www.google.co...py?answer=83105
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Posted 19 November 2011 - 05:18 PM
hi,
this new site is really nice and seems to be programmed really well.
I'm having troubles changing my settings and veiwing certian threads - whenever i try i get an error that looks like this:
An Error Occurred
Sorry, an error occurred. If you are unsure on how to use a feature, or don't know why you got this error message, try looking through the help files for more information.
[#1026] You are not permitted to modify all or some of your profile information.
is there any known reason for this?
thanks
this new site is really nice and seems to be programmed really well.
I'm having troubles changing my settings and veiwing certian threads - whenever i try i get an error that looks like this:
An Error Occurred
Sorry, an error occurred. If you are unsure on how to use a feature, or don't know why you got this error message, try looking through the help files for more information.
[#1026] You are not permitted to modify all or some of your profile information.
is there any known reason for this?
thanks
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Yosef
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Posted 22 November 2011 - 06:33 PM
I would like to make the administrators aware that it seems posts made on this forum as a guest (i.e. without logging in) are immediately appearing on the board unmoderated. Considering that this is a moderated site, I am pretty sure this is either an oversight (in the forum settings) or a bug in the software. Either way, you probably will want to be aware of this.
I would add that (in my opinion) it is beneficial to allow Guest posts, since some sincere but infrequent readers will wish to post a useful message without wanting to bother going through the account registration procedure, and they otherwise will not bother posting if forced to register an account. So I think keeping the Guest posting option available is a good move, though you will want to insure that the Guest posts first go through the same moderation that registered users posts go through.
I would add that (in my opinion) it is beneficial to allow Guest posts, since some sincere but infrequent readers will wish to post a useful message without wanting to bother going through the account registration procedure, and they otherwise will not bother posting if forced to register an account. So I think keeping the Guest posting option available is a good move, though you will want to insure that the Guest posts first go through the same moderation that registered users posts go through.
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Posted 22 November 2011 - 07:27 PM
You're right. An oversight. Fixed. Thank you.I would like to make the administrators aware that it seems posts made on this forum as a guest (i.e. without logging in) are immediately appearing on the board unmoderated. Considering that this is a moderated site, I am pretty sure this is either an oversight (in the forum settings) or a bug in the software. Either way, you probably will want to be aware of this.
I would add that (in my opinion) it is beneficial to allow Guest posts, since some sincere but infrequent readers will wish to post a useful message without wanting to bother going through the account registration procedure, and they otherwise will not bother posting if forced to register an account. So I think keeping the Guest posting option available is a good move, though you will want to insure that the Guest posts first go through the same moderation that registered users posts go through.
And thank you for the suggestion. Guests posting? Maybe. Right now we cannot even catch up with the members' posts.
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Yosef
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Posted 23 November 2011 - 12:26 AM
Oddly, it seems this "Welcome Frumteens!" section allow Guest posts (which are now being correctly moderated after your settings change), but most other sections on JewsWithQuestions are not accepting Guest posts at all. It must have an individual setting for each section of the forum, with some enabled and some disabled. Is there a reason for that?You're right. An oversight. Fixed. Thank you.
And thank you for the suggestion. Guests posting? Maybe. Right now we cannot even catch up with the members' posts.
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Yosef
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Posted 23 November 2011 - 05:46 PM
I'm curious if that is still being addressed. Cause the longer its not done properly, I would imagine the more it could lower the google search ratings for the original site.Thank you. The frumteens webmaster is going to deal with this.
