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On behalf of the Owners, Administrators, and Moderators, welcome to the GliderCENTRAL Home Page. We have been serving the glider community for about nine years now with more than 275,000 posts for the purpose of sharing glider information while providing a family type of atmosphere. Both veteran and new members are welcome. Our main mission is to help Sugar Gliders and their owners with illness questions or general glider care.
We are strictly a G rated board and do not approve of flaming or bashing. This board will not be involved in name calling, gossip or drama.
If you have any problems or questions, please contact one of our Moderators, Administrators or the Owner.
We would like to thank everyone for making GliderCENTRAL what it is and we are glad to have you all.
Have fun, and we will strive to give all the help we can for you.
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We have made a little change to the user profile section of the board. We have noticed many have added their phone numbers to their signature so they are "networked" in order to help others who need.
We have added two new fields in the user profile which you can fill in by editing your profile. The two options added are Home Phone and Cell Phone. We have added this as an option instead of listing your profile in your signature for everyone to see. By adding it to your profile, one can chose to remove it from their signature. A users profile can only be viewed by people who are logged in. We felt this would be safer than the only option of posting in your signature.
We have also added a third custom field in the profile section. Users will now be able to post a link to their facebook account. We will soon be doing a board upgrade that will bring some more options and a new clean look to user profiles.
We hope that this helps and that you like this change 
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We have been keeping busy here trying to add new things, new features and integrated looks. We have added two new portal boxes to the left side, the today's birthdays and the featured members. Featured members are a random pick from the forums. They are randomly picked by the system for users who have posted in the set amount of days.
We will be adding a third box on the left side for articles. Shortly we will start getting articles together consisting of the many health, social, and other aspects of sugar gliders. This will be an ongoing project that we hope many will benefit from. If you have an idea on a article or wish to write one, please feel free to contact us.
We have also added an extra box on the right side of the portal page. This is to help make members aware of current research, sugar glider studies, and resources. Such as the VCA, the study being conducted by students at UNSW, and we hope to be adding the necropsy study soon as well.
In a order to keep things looking consistent, we have made changes to the glider sound page and the GC staff page. When you visit these pages, your style will be followed over as well as the forum navigations including the right and left columns if they are enabled. This will also eventually be applied the the glider names page.
Within the next month or two we will be performing a update to our forum software. There will be some small additions that you will notice. This will more than likely be the last one before we have a large upgrade coming hopefully towards the end of the year. That upgrade will probably be the largest one since the new (current) software was adopted back in 2006.
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We have finished moving over to the new server. We have been running on it for a month now. Many of the little bugs that have been found have been fixed and things are moving swiftly and smooth.
Our next goal is to rewrite our contact system. We are building it into the board software look so everything will look the same across the site. While the contact system is down, please contact Karen or I via email which is listed on the contact page or by pm for assistance you may need with the site.
Over the next month or so after the contact system is done we may be adding some things to the site such as featured members and other cosmetic things for GliderCENTRAL.
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This last month has been a very busy one, with some great additions and changes. By now you are all aware of the changes with Karen & Eddie's titles, but no one but the staff are aware of the additions.
A little over a year ago we announced we were moving the forums over to our current server while we consider some hardware changes. For many years GliderCENTRAL had two dedicated servers that we had full control over, one at a hosting company and one that came to me two years ago. Last December we eliminated the one at the hosting company and have been running off of one server.
About three weeks ago Karen, Ellen, and I discussed backup plans. The decision was made and Ellen approved the decision to build a new server. I received the parts and have been busy ever since, between holiday decorations, board upgrades, the new server, and other projects that will come later down the road.
This is the reason many have noticed some board interruption of being slow and stuff. We pretty much have all the software loaded on the new software as well as the databases. The slow times were caused from doing backups and transferring of the data.
The way things would be set up after I redo our current server is that both will be identical. This would mean if one went down for major issues, with a few buttons hit and database updated the other would take over while the other is being fixed.
Our current server is about 5 or 6 years old, the new one has a lot of hard drive space and more than enough memory to keep us moving forward.
This is all being backed up by a battery backup system that will keep GliderCENTRAL online for roughly 40 minutes before it turns the server off automatically so there is no data loss.
I have had a lot of help from my friend James from vnc with the setup of this. Soon it will be time to start testing things and permanently moving things over. I plan on having everything on the new server within a week, so here is advanced warning that you may notice down time, errors, and such. We will try to do it on off hours but I cannot promise that. We want to thank you all for your understanding, patience and support.
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- Forums- The forums are the heart of GliderCENTRAL (GC). Here you will find discussion on just about every thing about sugar gliders.
- Gallery- The Photo gallery has thousands of pictures of gliders. We also have special sections for the Photo of the Week contest, Gatherings, Cages and Accessories, Health and Anatomy, and Color Variations. Come and take a look!
- Links- The links database is comprehensive collection of links that will provide you hours of reading. The links are added by anyone who registers and reviews can be left and read on existing ones. Included in the Links Database, you will find the Vets List and Breeder List
- Sounds- Hear some of sounds that gliders make. We have audio formats for both Windows Media player and Real Audio.
- Glider Names- Almost two thousand names are here. These names were submitted by our members over the years so we have a great collection.
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