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I am pleased to announce that the first forum post notification system has been scraped and replaced by a more robust and flexible system.

I was unhappy with the original notification system for two primary reasons. First, you received an email each time a thread you watched was posted on. That might not be a big deal right now, but I do hope TheCursed.org will grow a bit bigger. I did not like the idea of your inbox being flooded with new post announcements. Second, there was no flexibility in what you could watch. All you could monitor was forum posts.You could not keep track of an individual poster or other content on the site.

The new notification system does all of the above and more. Read on for a brief tutorial.

In the forums themselves, there are now three options located at the bottom of the top post. They are Subscribe to this Post, To posts of type Forum Topic and To posts by a Particular User. Select the subscription you wish and you will be asked how often and how you wish to be notified.

A few points on the options you are presented with. If you choose 'As soon as possible' for 'Send interval,' you will receive an email each time a new post is done. By selecting any other interval, you will get a digest email summarizing all new posts within that time frame. If you select 'Privatemsg' for your 'Send method,' you will not see any emails. You will be notified via the Private Message system only, no email will be sent to you.

Once you are happy with your selections, click 'Subscribe' and you will be taken back to the thread. The Subscribe to link will now read unsubscribe. Nuff said?

This also applies to the newly re-opened Metamor City Public Library.

From your Account Settings page, you can modify all of your existing subscriptions. On the 'Notifications' tab you can change or unsubscribe any of your current subscriptions. For example, say you originally set the send interval on a particular thread to as soon as possible, and are now getting twenty emails a day from that one thread. You can change that to daily on the notifications tab.

Feel free to contact me with any questions or thoughts you have.

As you may already know, there was recently an incident at the Metamor City Public Library. I am unclear as to the exact nature of the event. All I really know is that the library has been closed down for going on three months now and that their entire collection was somehow rendered unusable. What exactly that means, I really do not know. If any of you could shed any light on what has occurred at the library, I would love to hear what you know.

To add to the mystery, it appears that the Lothanasi Order is involved with the restoration effort at the library. I suspect that their involvement is much more than mere restoration assistance, but I can not substantiate that suspicion.

Now, to the reason I write you today. I have been informed that limited sections of a few texts are now again available. So far all I have seen is relatively pedestrian material. I have hope that over time the knowledge of this great Metamor City institution will once again shine brightly over all the world. You may view what is currently available here.

Finally, while it is true I have acquaintances in the order, they are being extremely tight lipped on this subject. I might however, be able to slip them a few suggestions on where to focus their restoration efforts. I am by no means making any promises here. As I said, my influence is limited. I will try though, if your requests are reasonable.

I am excited to announce a cool new forum topic. Etherius, The Master Storyteller of Metamor City, has offered to at least contemplate answering a few of our questions! Head over to Ask the Author to see what you can entice out of him.