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"Deaf Online is a discussion board for deaf, hard of hearing, late-deafened, ci users and many others to share information, thoughts, opnions, news and idea on a variety of hearing loss or deaf related topics and issues. We have wide spectrums of forums to choose from Cochlear implants, Education to Technologies"

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A Upgrade to this community site will occur this week.

The Board will be upgraded to latest version which has tons of new features as well as bug fixes and there are some feature which DOL can also act as a social networking site.

Tour of features of IPB 2.3 can be viewed at;
http://community.ipslink.com/board/features/

The Blog and Gallery will be upgraded as well.

So when the upgrade get underway, DOL will be closed to public till the upgrade is done.

FYI: DOL's 6th anniversary is coming up a week.

Just a FYI to all of you that I have changed the way how we quote a post.

I have turned off Quote Embedding so that way we don't have to work more to delete some part of quotes and just quote the non-quoted content.

I noticed myself and others have posted with wrong opening tag than it should be.

So I hope this time on will be a better experience in posting and quoting.


As for upcoming update;

Sometime in March, I will be updating this board to latest version which is mostly bug fixes which I would like to do that.

So that means the board will be closed and re-opened because I will have to revert the modification to default and reapply the modification after upgrading.

As you may notice that, I haven't brought back the ads back is because I haven't gotten around to it but will do that after upgrading in March though but it will be different than before.

Have fun!

A Upgrade to this community site will occur on the first weekend of January.

The Board will be upgraded to 2.2 which has tons of new features and there are some feature which DOL can also act as a social networking site.

sneak peek of features of IPB 2.2 can be viewed at;
http://community.ipslink.com/board/features/

The Blog and Gallery will be upgraded as well.

So when the upgrade get underway, DOL will be closed to public till the upgrade is done.


UPDATE: Sorry it was not done on the first weekend but last weekend of Jan.

Thanks to all DOL Members and Lurkers who continued to visit DOL!

DOL will be around for ages to come!

Again thanks for your continued visit!

I have enabled Deaf News to pull feeds from Deaf Today but this time, it will not appear in "View New Posts" results since some of you doesn't want to be overwhelmed by too many topics created by DOL Bot..

So that means if you want to check out the Deaf News then you will have to visit that Forum section to view those new news topics.

I hope it will be make you all happy than before.

I do have plans to add another feeds from other sites beside Deaf Today. I will have to search for the one that has compatible feeds. But when the time comes to DOL being upgraded to 2.1 which will have it's own built in RSS Feed system so the issue of compatibility will be moot. So for now, the compatible ones will be pulled.

News Posts from Deaf Today will start to appear in Deaf News section tomorrow (Thurs, Sept 8th)
It will pull 15 news each day so when you want to read more then click "Read More" under Forum name.

Have a great Fall season!


as of Feb 2006
Well, I re-enabled them to show up in "View New Post" since many of you may not be aware of it and miss a lot.

As for other feeds, some may show up and some may not because of overwhelm factor.

Can someone pm me few deaf sites that has RSS feed feature that I could add here.

Thanks!