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March Time is Marching on... and time... is still Marching on. Hey. Been very busy for me lately, but I have had a little time for programming lately. Made a few modest improvements to the board software that aren't even worth mentioning. Have a few major improvements in mind that keep edging closer to the top of my to do list. Other than that, not much new. posted by AMPro - --- posted on Mar 3, 2003 --- post #000027 ---

Feb 2003 Hello. It's February. Not really much news on the board other than people have started using it again. That's been nice. There have been something like 10,300 visitors to the site's homepage and 2,340 posts to the message boards. I should start writing stats programs to calculate the posts automatically instead of adding them by hand. Add that to my list of a gazillion things to do. Well, welcome. Glad to see you're still here. Tell us what's going on with yourself and all that. Head to the nostalgia board and remind us of some old stories that we've forgotten or something like that. Yeah, tell us a story. (Mikey didn't even have to bother me to write this this time. Yay!) posted by AMPro - --- posted on Feb 1, 2003 --- post #000026 ---

10,000 Hey, we just went past 10,000 visitors. It took a few years but that's still pretty good I guess. The activity seems to have picked up lately (thanks to Unicornz, thanks Ang :) Happy posting people. posted by AMPro - --- posted on Jan 7, 2003 --- post #000025 ---

Happy New Year... Yah. Okay. So once again ChainMikey's been after me to write something here. I had been waiting until I had something to announce but time to work on this site just seems to get more and more scarce. So instead I'll just wish everyone a Happy New Year. Hope you're all doing well in your endeavors and thanks for stopping by and keeping in touch. May Peace be with you (seriously) -AM posted by AMPro - --- posted on Jan 1, 2003 --- post #000024 ---

Congratulations DRAKE! Well, it has been a very long time since I've written one of these. Pardon the delay. The very first order of business is: CONGRATULATIONS TO DRAKE, WINNER OF THE 716BBS.COM 1,000th POST CONTEST. Hope that $100.00 comes in handy bro. And congratulations to Koz also who will be receiving $20 for posting the actual 1,000th post. Now maybe we can get some posts going in the other message bases. :) Also, everyone please welcome Jim, The Central Scrutinizer, as the newest employee of AMProSoft. So far he has been a tremendous help in getting http://www.Where2GoOnline.com running more smoothly. A very big public thanks homie. And last but perhaps most, 716BBS.com has an ALL NEW LOOK. Drop in and have a look at it and tell me what you think of the new graphics. No Chainsaw, I haven't forgotten that I promised to animate something for you. For posterity, 716BBS has recently passed 7200 visitors to the front page (please enter via the starting page), and has recently passed 1,750 posts to our message boards. Groovy. - There have been lots of requests to reactivate the live chat. Lots of people like to pop into our live chat and pick on it for never having any live chat. Well up your nose with a rubber hose. I've tried setting a time that people could agree upon but there is a lot of disagreement. So what I've decided to do is just make a general "Chat Hour". A lot of the posts on the board come after midnight so I have decided to make midnight to 1am a chat hour. Hopefully that doesn't interfere with Mr. M'Monin's tv schedule. :) I will try to make it to 3 or 4 chats a week and stick around even if no one is there, so it can be like a thing where if you think of it and your not doing anything between 12 and 1 you can just drop by and see if anyone is around to chat. Of course if this time is inconvenient for folks I have no problem with anyone who wants to organize thier own chat in the chatroom. posted by AMPro - --- posted on Mar 10, 2002 --- post #000023 ---

A lot of new stuff. First and foremost we have three more new message bases all of which are off to a nice start. We have "The Book Nook" for discussing the books you've read, the ones you're reading or would like to read and your thoughts on reading in general. We have "The Artists Loft" for drawing cool pictures for anyone who's been missing those ascii art subs. And we have a new "Sports Sub" for those who like to talk about point guards and penalties. Secondly, YOU have a chance to WIN $100.00 from AMProSoft and 716BBS. Just click the button on the right side of the board that explains all of the contest details. Good luck to everyone. Also, since I last wrote there were lots of problems with the Poetry sub which have subsequently been fixed. Thanks Mr. Chainsaw for the help in troubleshooting. If you're poetically inclined the Poetry Sub is working again and ready for your artistry. For posterity, 716BBS has recently passed 5800 visitors to the front page (please enter via the starting page), and is about to surpass 1,300 posts to our message boards. Groovy. Peace Peeps. posted by AMPro - --- posted on Dec 13, 2001 --- post #000022 ---

October Wow. It's been quite a month. Firstly let me say (00MHappy Hallowe'enM00) During the month of October 716BBS cruised past 5,000 visitors. Yay! We got to more than 1,000 posts. Yay! With a lot of help from the increasingly popular current events board. We got a couple new and improved versions of the Message Board program, and started to have fun with the pictures and all that. Even had an event for the first time in ages. All in all I'd say it was a great month! Thank you. Peace Peeps. posted by AMPro - --- posted on Oct 31, 2001 --- post #000021 ---

2.05 is ALIVE! Hey, I've just put up the beta version 2.05 of my Message Board script. You'll see that I've been quite busy. First and foremost I'd like to thank my buddy Chainsaw for suggestion the preview button feature. That's a BIG improvement. Now you can see how your post will look before you post it and you can see if you messed up the codes or not. BUT There's no reason to mess up the codes any more because now the software puts the codes in for you. If you never could figure out how people were doing the colors and big letters and stuff, now it's super simple to figure out. You just click a button and it's done for you. Speaking of colors, there's a whole color pallete in there now too so you can get as goofy and colorful as you like. It's simple. AND Now there are even funky little icons like smileys and frowny faces and all that fun stuff. Lots of new features to enjoy. I'll convert the rest of the message boards over to the new script when I finish it. I still have more work to do on the SysOp side of the script but the user side is basically complete. Enjoy! Peace Peeps. posted by AMProSoft - --- posted on Oct 18, 2001 --- post #000020 ---

It's finally here! Woo Hoo! Version 2.02 of my message base script is finally complete. Lots of little bug fixes and feature updates. Most notable improvements: • There are now little check boxes on the lower left corner of posts. You can click inside the check box for as many posts as you like and then those posts will show up on the posting form when you go to post. That way you don't have to have two windows open or flip back and forth to remember what you were gonna post and who you were gonna respond to. • And, when you're responding to those people, there is now a Quote Code you can use to make a little quote box. The quote codes are (OOQ to open the box and QOO) to close the box. Try to always use correct matching (OOQs and Q00)s because otherwise it can make your posts look funny. I've found it makes a nice quote box if you next them and use the (OOM to center. For example: (OOQ (OOQ (OOM AMPro said: M00) Q00) This is what AMPro said OOQ) Then write your reply underneath it. If that's confusing don't worry I will explain it better when I write the updated help file next week sometime. Or try to anyway. ===================================================== Okay. It's finally BBS Event time too. Next Friday, October 12th at 8pm at the Higher Grounds Coffee House which is on the corner of Sheridan and Millersport we will meet up and watch MidiDerek's Band rock out. They are called Modern Art and they are quite good. See ya there. Peace Peeps. posted by AMPro - --- posted on Oct 3, 2001 --- post #000019 ---

The coding madman strikes again... Well I have been coding 'round the clock for about a week and a half now. As you can see from zooming around the site there have been a ton of updates and there are more to come. • There is now a Calendar script. No more out of date calendars for us. Now we have a working, automatic calendar as far out as the eyes can see. • There is now a gallery script and the galleries have been expanded quite a bit. About 4 times as many pictures as before, and they're categorized now. • Most notably though I've written a new message board script. This script is WAAAAAAAAAAY better than the old one. I don't have to go and archive the old posts by hand anymore it has a full archive searching system. You can search through old posts looking for a keyword or search a range of posts, you can have the message board list posts forward or backwards, and you can scan through the posts by titles only now to quickly hunt for a post you need to reread. Also, I've added another new code to the posting codes. It allows you to center things in your posts, it's the (OOM code. Enjoy it, it might be especially useful on the new poetry sub. • New Poetry Sub?!?!? But AMPro, you were talking about that like 8 months ago! Yeah well, what can I say, I was busy. But the new subs ARE in fact HERE! They're here now, and you can post on them. We have added a bunch more subs (Poetry, Current Events, Entertainment) and there are several more on the way. There's been a lot more activity on 716BBS these last couple weeks while I've been adding all this new stuff. Thanks for dropping in. Pardon all the dust from the remoddeling. Stop in the message boards and drop off some greetings, news & opinions. Peace Peeps! -/\ posted by AMPro - --- posted on Sep 26, 2001 --- post #000018 ---

busy, busy, busy Well, my buddy Chainsaw has finally harassed me to the point where I shall write something new. I apologize for the long delay. I am not dead. I am very busy lately, but that's not an adequate excuse I don't think. There have still been monthly gatherings (though you wouldn't know it to check the calendar). Last month I got to finally meet Mambo as she, Drake, Kiera and I met up for the monthly 716BBSer thingamaging. That was pretty fun. There is another one coming up on Wednesday the 14th at Denny's on Union (across from Galleria drive) at 8:30pm. Hope to see y'all there. There's a birthday thing for deadBEAT comming up this week also so get ahold of Leslie if you belong in attendance. That's all I have at this time, other than to say thanks to the folks that still stop by and read or post here on occasion. =) posted by AMPro - --- posted on March 2001 --- post #000017 ---

november december Well, well, well. November was quite a month. Many of us got to see one another a bit more than usual. First there was Chainsaw's most excellent wedding reception thingie. That was loads of fun and we even saw folx like Raptor and Arcana who we almost never see. There there was a nice sized Coffe gathering at Starbuck's where we had about 8 or 9 folx show. This month's Coffee Gathering will be on December 20 at the Starbuck's in Williamsville at 8:30 pm. Be sure to mark your calendar or use our calendar. We'll try to schedule an afternoon coffee in Hamburg also if I can get in touch with Scrute. For now I'm going to be pulling the Thursday night chats. Mostly because I can't remember to show up to them myself anymore. I will probably try to restart the chats some month in the distant future when I write a new version of the chat program. If anyone still want to show up though or shedule your own chats you're more than welcome. My birthday is Tuesday. Entering my 4th decade. Wow. Would you be interested in a little Christmas cash? I am thinking of having a 716BBS contest and giving away $25 from AMProSoft if there is any interest in it. Let me know in the message boards if you would be interested. Oh, and I've finally replaced that counter from TheCounter with my own counter script. The one from TheCounter kept timing out and was slowing down the page. So now I have officially written everything on this website now that I've gotten rid of that pesky foreign counter (that wasn't even counting accurately). Okay. Later folxes. posted by AMPro - --- posted on December 2001 --- post #000016 ---

happy birthdays Wow. It is like EVERYONE's birthday. =) Happy Birthday to Chainsaw and Battle Axe and Nata'sCub/AMProPrime. I hope you all have some particularly happy birthdays. Also Mikey just got married I think so um, happy wedded bliss too Chainsaw. Sorry about missing the thursday night chat last night. I think that's the first one I missed in a couple weeks. Sorry. I will try to get the calendar up for November very, very soon. There will be another get together this month. Coffee gathering III will be held November 15 at the Starbuck's on Main and California in Williamsville sometime around 8:30. posted by AMPro - --- posted on November 2001 --- post #000015 ---

next coffee gathering Don't fret if you missed the Coffee Gathering last night. We had so much fun that we'll be doing it again soon. Wednesday October 11th in fact. Check the new October Calendar for more details. posted by AMPro - --- posted on Sep 29, 2000 --- post #000014 ---

coffee gathering Just a little reminder that there will be no regularly scheduled chat tonight because tonight is the night of the Coffee gathering. People not going to the Coffee Gathering are of course welcome to use the chat room, but if you're wondering why we're not there, it'll be because we are at Starbuck's in Williamsville on Main near Pasadena starting at 7pm. The last few weeks we have had some nice chat sessions. I think last week we had seven or eight people. It's a lot of fun to talk to all these people again on a somewhat regular basis. posted by AMPro - --- posted on Sep 28, 2000 --- post #000013 ---

future plans It's been brought to my attention that it's been too long since I updated this (thanks Mikey) and that I need to put up a new calendar since it's well into August (thanks Godmother). So. Here I am updating this front page and also I just posted calendars for August and September. I am still working on a new version of the message bases and when I finish it I will be adding a lot more subs, including networked subs from other websites. That should be cool. And one final note, last Thursday we tied the record for most active chat session when we had 8 people show up through the course of the chat. Make plans to join us this Thursday night. It's fun. posted by AMPro - --- posted on Aug 7, 2000 --- post #000012 ---

more programming Well programming on the BBS is really going well. Right now 716BBS is just a bunch of components slapped together (chat, Message Boards, Profiles, etc...). I am working on a full BBS software package, but I am putting it on FFXBBS first so that I won't break this board if something goes really wrong (like what happened with the chat program). Speaking of the chat, the chat which never used to have any chat going on in it has had active conversations every day in the last week and a half. It's been fun. Well I'm going to go see about getting the Newsletter put out and then get back to work on programming. The BBS software is going to really rock. posted by AMPro - --- posted on July 8, 2000 --- post #000011 ---

chat room adventures & profiles Yesterday (and on into this morning) was quite a day. First I changed the Message Boards so that it was possible to change the background color of your post and the text color. That was no big deal really, but then later in the morning I found the bug that had been eluding me in my profiles system that I've been writing for the board. That was cool. Then the stock market whoped on me like an ugly, ill-manered step-child but I really didn't care much because I was having lots of fun in the chat room where we set a record (by quite a bit) for most people in the chat room so far with me, Chainsaw, Battle Axe, Farmer Lou, louie, Scarlett & NatasCub(AMProPrime) all stopping in to chat. When all that that was over I started hammering on my Profiles System again, and now 10 hours later I think it is completely done. Now you folks can start entering your profiles so we can see the 50 million bugs pop out of it. The Profiles probably won't be as buggy as the chat room still is, I tested it out pretty thouroughly (I think). We shall see. Well, I tend too talk to much when I'm tired so I'm going to send off the Newsletter for this week and go to bed. Enjoy the profiles, and before I forget, welcome to all the new people showing up from the Moon. =) Thanks for getting the boards more active again. The Message Boards are enjoying the activity. Okay, later -AMPro posted by AMPro - --- posted on June 28, 2000 --- post #000010 ---

message board improvements Added colors and fancy text stuff to the message boards this week. I will be adding those to the chat this week. Have a bunch of other enhancements in mind to make as soon as I get a little bit of time. Movie night is tonight at Regal on Transit. Meeting up @7pm. See you there. posted by AMPro - --- posted on June 24, 2000 --- post #000009 ---

716BBS Bulletin Obie Kaybie. Yesterday I sent out the first 716BBS Bulletin. if you didn't get one, just leave your EMail address on a post in the message board and you'll get added to the mailing list. Also yesterday I added the Gallery to the board. Has a starter package of 716er pics that we'll expand upon as we go. See y'all on the message boards and Thursday night in the chat. posted by AMPro - --- posted on June 14, 2000 --- post #000008 ---

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