Fourtheye Maintenance

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water…..

Recently, I’ve been considering how to best use Fourtheye as a more social site, and how to best give readers a method to communicate more freely with each other, and also to share their opinions on items that aren’t neccessarily covered by Fourtheye.  To achieve this, I have been contemplating installing a WordPress plugin called Buddypress, which add a whole load of features, including Private Messaging, Friends Lists, Groups, Status Updates and more.  Give that there has been a recent influx of Toolarmy readers in the last week, I feel now is a good a time to take advantage of these features as there has ever been.

However to get this on, means I need to change my version of WordPress from vanilla to MU, and as a result will require some downtime.  Unlike Toolarmy though, I expect this will only take a couple of hours this evening Australian time (early morning US time) and we’ll be back.  Also unlike Toolarmy, it’ll have some new features, so it’s good all round.