News about upcoming (official) site improvements! on Wall of Mouths

News about upcoming (official) site improvements!

Started by Teethgrinder (René Fennema) Administrator in Site Announcements

Hello everyone! It’s been a while, so here’s some news about the future of Teethgrinder.com and the official site.

(1) As a lot of you have noticed the performance of the message boards has been poor for a while now, and there will be a solution for this in about 4/5 weeks. There will be an upgrade to a completely new and improved message board system, which will be linked from both this and the official site!

All users and messages from the current message boards will be imported into the new system, so nothing will be lost in the transfer.

Some new features of the new system are (in random order):
- add HTML code (such as links) in your posts
- search in previous messages
- private messaging system to talk one-on-one with fellow users
- extended user profiles, personal icons, smileys (optional)
- much more!

To implement the system, which includes transferring all users and messages, the current message boards will be unavailable for a few weeks starting at the end of this week (around March 7). I apologize for the inconvenience this causes to you, but I’m sure it’s worth it!

(2) As many of you know I’m responsible for the new official site. Although it looks like nothing is happening, I can assure you that there is definitely stuff happening behind the scenes. I’m looking at a launch date sometime in May. Therapy? and I appreciate your patience.

Thanks for your continued support, shown in the kind e-mails and replies I have received lately! Cheers, Rene.

Posted on Mon, 4 March 2002 at 15:31

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satanslittlehelper wrote:

wow, great news! all sounds very exciting. nice one rene! cant wait to see the fruits of all your hard work. :-)

Posted on Mon, 4 March 2002 at 18:40

Dr. Bigjoint wrote:

Great news!

Posted on Tue, 5 March 2002 at 01:09

hoochalobster (Sarah) Super Moderator wrote:

*Mr Burns* Excelleeeeeent…

Are there any ‘unofficial’ message boards to lurk about on until the new one arrives?

Posted on Tue, 5 March 2002 at 03:09

donVutz wrote:

I could put one on my page pretty quick, but it would be very slow and uncomfortable to use. At least it would be something until no one else puts one on the net.

Posted on Tue, 5 March 2002 at 11:16

Brendon wrote:

I’ve actually been programming my own message board now (although for a different site), but it would be very easy to just copy it over to my mp3 page (http://come.to/therapymp3s). Right now though, it’s just a shell of a messageboard. I haven’t had time to put any of the pretty colors or pictures on it, because I’ve been working mostly on the backend.

Posted on Tue, 5 March 2002 at 15:56

hoochalobster (Sarah) Super Moderator wrote:

I’ve made a Voy one if we need it - really haven’t had time to do anything interesting to it and I’m going away for a few days so please excuse the dullness but the address is
http://www.voy.com/75518

Posted on Tue, 5 March 2002 at 18:37

maya l wrote:

keep up the good work Rene

cheers,
Maya

Posted on Wed, 6 March 2002 at 13:47

donVutz wrote:

I also put one on my page now. I’ve put a Link to it on my Guestbook or just go to: http://forum.paidforum.de/list.php?f=3041

Oh yeah, and of course good luck for the new page and WOM to you, Rene.

Posted on Wed, 6 March 2002 at 17:40

deekoi wrote:

hey Rene, thanks for the email which i recieved five minutes ago, hope everything goes well with the swap over, and thanks for looking at the wallpaper

peace

Posted on Wed, 6 March 2002 at 22:24

#10

satanslittlehelper wrote:

nice suprise to see the boards are working again, i thought they were out for the duration the other day. good that you guys have got some other boards for us, untill the new w.o.m is unveiled.

Posted on Sun, 10 March 2002 at 00:10

#11

sister wrote:

hey Rene, thanks for the wom-update; it looks great! Anyway; i thought that the official site would be updated as well, that it would get a new look, and that you would become webmaster of it; are there still any plans on that?? cheers & thanks again!

Posted on Sat, 27 April 2002 at 13:05

#12

Teethgrinder (René Fennema) Administrator wrote:

Yes, I am the webmaster of the official site, and I am working with Therapy? on a totally new version. I cannot give you a launch date yet, but I’ll keep you all updated whenever possible.

My first priority was to get the new message boards up and running. While tweaking it to make it even better, I will continue my work on the official site. Cheers!

Posted on Mon, 29 April 2002 at 21:50

#13

Nausea wrote:

Title: well..

Rene, if you are in charge of the official site then why was the gig in Helsingborg not on there? It said (and still says) APRIL 16TH MALMO KB, when the correct city and venue should have been Helsingborg, The Tivoli.

I’m not that into T? as I used to be, but I decided to take a trip down to Malmo to see them.. only to be informed outside of KB that the gig was changed to Helsingborg. No T? in sight!

I wasn’t too depressed, having seen them many times, BUT there were atleast 50 ppl outside of KB expecting to see T? for the first time in years and they were pretty upset.. I spoke to a couple of guys who travelled all the way from Germany and I felt really sorry for them!

As there is ZERO promotion of T? nowdays, the only way to get info on the tour dates is on the official page.

Nice work man!!!

Anyway, I ended up having a great night out at KB, getting very DRUNK with ze Germans…

Cheers.

Posted on Wed, 1 May 2002 at 20:52

#14

Teethgrinder (René Fennema) Administrator wrote:

The ‘Nice work man!!!’ was a bit too sarcastic for my taste, but anyway..

I’m sad to hear that there were 50 disappointed people waiting outside the wrong venue, and I’m 100% sure Therapy? feels sorry about this situation as well.

However, the fact that I’m doing the updates for the official site does not mean I get all the necessary info, tour schedules, changed venues, etc. in a vision when I sleep at night. I rely on information I get from Therapy? and the people they work with. I was not informed about the change of venues, otherwise I would have certainly changed this on the site.

Therapy? try hard to inform their fans in a proper way if possible, which is shown by the fact that Michael asked me today to inform as many fans as possible that their performance at the Essential Festival has been cancelled, as soon as he found out / made a decision about this. I sent out an e-mail to the mailing list subscribers, added it to the official site, this site, and the message boards.

I don’t know what the reason of the change of cities/venues was, but it was probably last minute, due to some external factors, and I apologise for the disappointment.

Good thing you still got drunk, though.

Posted on Wed, 1 May 2002 at 21:14

#15

barnabus11 wrote:

Title: stuff

Just like to point out that the Irish Ozzfest, unlike what it says on the official page, isn’t in Dublin, its actually in Kildare, Punchestown Racecourse,

Like the new boards, gluck

Posted on Wed, 1 May 2002 at 23:11

#16

MarkoJii (Ukko Perkele) wrote:

We’ve been waiting for ages for the new official site… So when it’s gonna happen Rene..? Hopefully soon.

Posted on Wed, 28 August 2002 at 08:24

#17

Ronald wrote:

Rene…give us a little update we are all so damn curious!

Posted on Sun, 10 November 2002 at 17:39

#18

Teethgrinder (René Fennema) Administrator wrote:

Well, I can’t give you an exact launch date yet, due to my current situation, but I can give you a few hints as to what has been done so far:

- A large collection of rare and unreleased sound clips!
- New tour diaries with several behind-the-scenes pictures
- New top 10 favorites lists from the band members
- The news and tour dates section

All of this will be in a new interface which I designed a while ago.

I’m currently working on the discography and press/interview sections. BTW, if anyone has any interviews or reviews they would like to contribute to the archive on the official site, please get in touch with me.

Posted on Mon, 11 November 2002 at 15:59

#19

MarkoJii (Ukko Perkele) wrote:

Nice to hear about the new stuff Rene!!

Hopefully there is a track called “Kiss Me On A Ghost-Train” and some other gems… ;o)

I have a few interviews and all the Funny Farm issues, but I assume you have them already…

Posted on Tue, 12 November 2002 at 05:39

#20

Auto_Surgery (Mad Axe Man) wrote:

Hey Rene,

Was wondering how much more you had to do on the official site and was there a light at the end of the tunnel?

Posted on Mon, 20 January 2003 at 20:04

#21

Teethgrinder (René Fennema) Administrator wrote:

Yes, there is ‘a light at the end of the tunnel’..

The new official site will be launched on April 1st, 2003!

A large part of the work has been done now, and will mostly be finished this month. In March some last things will be done and the site will be tested and checked by Therapy?, Sarah (who has already helped a lot with the site so far!) and myself, preparing it for a launch on April 1st.

Hope it will be worth the wait!

Posted on Tue, 18 February 2003 at 14:08

#22

penn wrote:

i’m sure it’ll be great!

[add some cool song to download please…]

Posted on Tue, 18 February 2003 at 14:16

#23

Dr. Bigjoint wrote:

Yepp, some songs for donwloading would be really nice :)

Posted on Tue, 18 February 2003 at 14:51

#24

Teethgrinder (René Fennema) Administrator wrote:

Like I announced earlier in the ‘Lost Songs’ thread, ‘The Sweeney’ and ‘Lost Highway’ from the BBC Radio 1 Evening Sessions will be available for download for sure.

I think there will be about 8 or 9 songs available at the launch of the site, and there will be songs added and/or replaced later on. I’ll probably have a poll every once in a while so everyone can vote for new songs which should be made available.

Posted on Tue, 18 February 2003 at 15:08

#25

Dr. Bigjoint wrote:

By saying soundclips you mean it will incomplete versions?

Posted on Tue, 18 February 2003 at 15:13

#26

Teethgrinder (René Fennema) Administrator wrote:

No, the songs I was talking about are all full-length mp3’s.

There will also be 30 second sound clips available of all songs of Therapy?’s studio albums, for people new to (certain albums of) Therapy?.

Posted on Tue, 18 February 2003 at 16:00