Widgets are extra fancy stuff you can put on.

Thanks Charli.

Perhaps we could hold 'fanciest widget' competitions.

8 hours Brisket, heck

Oooooooh I wonder if they're launching the i phone app at the same time?!

What iPhone app? I use my iPhone to access here all the time.

It all sounds a bit complicated - I hope I will just be able to find my way here as normal. I don't go anywhere else on here. Hell, I haven't even got my head around posting pictures yet

I have no idea what a widgett is

Whatever it is, I hope it is an improvement and something we can all get used to.

I'm just wondering- - - have you all received the Email?
If not would you like me to post a copy here?

I got one thanks brisket.

I have not received the email, although El Loro has elluded to it.  Not sure if it makes any/much difference to us.  I look forwarded to be informed!!!

Yes please - I think I have a block on all e mails as when I first came over here I was innundated everytime I posted.

Have you got your  Announcements from Group/Channel Admins checked in your notification settings Joyron, if not you won't receive the emails 

Here is the Email.

I really don't know if or how it may affect GaGaJoyJoy.


Sometime on Monday, November 29, 2010, your LiveCloud experience will get an amazing update!
Here's a summary of what you'll see:
Upgraded and enhanced interfaces - Nearly every page you use has been redesigned to improve the overall experience.
Enhanced widget creation and editing - creating your perfect home page in LiveCloud just got easier. Check out the new simple drag and drop, simply by hovering over any homepage widget. You can now include full content and extracts within widgets too!

Facebook Connect integration for login - you can choose to use your Facebook login, rather than your existing LiveCloud login, if you wish. Sign in using your existing LiveCloud credentials first, if you are interested in doing this... then you can connect to Facebook on your Personal Settings page.

Lots of new themes for you to use - increase the wow factor for your LiveCloud space; visit themes in your personal control panel to see the new options.

LiveCloud Channels and social groups will be spun out as independent communities (Hoop.la sites) - the members, content, and owner/admins remain the same, but channel content will not appear in the LiveCloud network feed and you will no longer see a listing of channels to "explore."
If you're a member of a LiveCloud Channel, you'll notice that the URL will change from http://example.livecloud.com to http://example.hoop.la. However, if you visit the old URL, we will automatically direct you to the new one, and all bookmarks will continue to work as usual. Your login will remain the same as well.

So what is LiveCloud.com now? It's a social network focused solely on personal spaces with rich blogging, commenting and clip sharing. And it has the best privacy and moderation controls around. We’re still working on an iPhone app for LiveCloud, as well.

Please visit the LiveCloud blog for a complete, detailed explanation of the upcoming changes, with screenshots. If you have questions or suggestions, please visit http://help.socialstrata.com; we're always listening.

LiveCloud will be down for up to 8 hours during the upgrade, and we will be using our @livecloudnews Twitter account to communicate updates.

Thanks for being part of our online community reinvention!


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El Loro is one of our main technical guides.
Perhaps he can throw a little light on this at some point, and tell us if it means any changes for us, - or do we just stay as we are?

Thanks for the email Brisket.  Do not understand a word of it so I will wait for El Loro to tell me if there is anything I need to worry about.  Many thanks.  xxx

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ...........i'll just do what I always do - log on and hang on by my fingertips! It's got me by alright so far. I never dare venture far from here in the fear that I'll never find my way back.  After a long, long time I've finally got used to this site ..........hope it doesn't get too complicated!

Until it actually changes and we can see what's what i don't think anyone will be able to say for sure what it means for us....

Greetings everyone, I've just noticed this thread. Like you I don't know exactly what is going to happen next week, but these are a couple of posts I have made elsewhere today.

I assume we have all received this email. Firstly this is as much news to me as it is to you. It has nothing to do with my PM to you, though I suppose the changes in that may be done at the same time.

Reading the email makes me this that this applies to the livecloud site rather than this gagajoyjoy forum, so I don't know that we will see any of these changes on this forum. The main changes seem to be when you go to your profile and wall pages as those are on the Livecloud site. The other main changes seem to relate to other channels besides Gagajoyjoy, the best known here being The Sinking Ship channel.It looks as if you will have to log on to such channels directly rather than through Livecloud, and that may include Gagajoyjoy though that already has its own web address. But it may be worth you making a note of http://talk.gagajoyjoy.com and putting it in your Favourites (IE) or Bookmarks (Firefox).

You'll be able to log in with your Facebook login if you wish, but as I'm not on Facebook, not much relevance to me.

At present, I don't really know what these changes will mean to this site if anything, but I'm not expecting anything dramatic.

They say that Livecloud will be down for 8 hours during the upgrade, so that presumably means Seattle daytime, say somewhere between our 4pm to past midnight, but as Gagajoy is on a different web address, I don't know if this will affect this site. (I have just sent a Lori querying this).

My second post reads:

The main way in which we will be affected is that the Channels listed if you use the Channels option from the Explore function that this will no longer be there. I do not know if the Your Channels from the Explore function will still be there.

So my advice is that before the 28th, if you haven't already done so, add this to your Favourites (for IE users) or Bookmarks (for Firefox users) (or the equivalent for other browsers)
http://talk.gagajoyjoy.com/forums  This is the front page of this forum. As far as I know this address will not be changed.

If you use any of the other channels, then go to this page which lists all the channels

Look up the channel you want (which includes the gagajoyjoy one as shown above). Click on the channel you want to go to.
Once at the front page of that channel, add that to your Favourites/Bookmarks.
Note that the address where it refers to Livecloud will change from livecloud.com to hoop.la but we are told that using the livecloud address will still work.

I'll get my Tom Tom out and see which cul-de-sac I end up in   

Sleep!

Are they having a laugh??!


A widget works like a tag in a way. For example, on my space some people have widgets installed that shows their live updates on twitter, so while people are visiting their my space page, they can see what they're saying on twitter as well (like visiting 2 sites at once). Well that's my understanding of it anyway, it may have advanced in the last couple of months.

Since I made those postings earlier on today, I realised that the page which lists all the channels will disappear on the 28th. So for anyone who tends to use the list of channels to access channels could be a bit stuck.

So I have just created an archival copy of the list of channels and put it in the Community Announcments forum, so that people can still access those channels from Gagajoyjoy in future.

You can reach it here

I have asked Lori to put a sticky on that thread just over in Community Announcments so that it doesn't get lost.

Rosemary O'Neill has already spotted my post and says that a lot of these channels are driftwood, but she hopes to be able to get some sort of promotion in place, so that users of such channels should get in touch with her if they wish this for their channel.

If I get lost, somebody better come and find me.

I'll get Rosey and Dimpsey to come and find you (and no-one else will know who I mean )

Great idea, El Loro.

Just to let you know that Lori has confirmed that Gagajoyjoy will be down during the update - she will post a warning closer to the time.

Also she has confirmed that not only will the Explore Channels option will go, but so will the Your Channels option which you see when you point over the Livecloud logo.

This makes it even more important to bookmark each channel you use before the 28th. Or use that thread which I have created over in Community Announcments which Lori has now put a sticky on.

I've put this in bold to make it stand out.

El Loro, thanks for your informed and friendly guidance.
Your help is always appreciated.
I now realise that there will be some noticeable changes, but thanks to your advise I don't expect to get completely lost. Indeed I may actually like the changes.

Thanks very much. 

A new skin would be nice to change it up a bit

El Loro, I can follow your direction to the thread, but I have no idea about the Communitiy Announcements or where to find them.

Hi cologne.
On the front page - where you have a list of all the forums - it is on the left near the bottom.
Here :-



Hope this helps.

As far as I know the channels of which you are a member will still be in your personal site.

When you hover your cursor over The logo at top left, one of the options is for 'The Live Cloud Blog'. There's stuff in there about the forthcoming changes....with 'before' and 'after' pictures.

Thanks very much Fluffy.

Thank you brisket, I'm sorry it took so long, but I went off on a tangent somewhere else.

No problem cologne  - I distract myself all the time. 

Yesterday I sent a query to Lori and she has replied. I don't know if you ever use the search facility from the Explore menu. If you do, you will know that the replies cover all channels so that you can get lots of irrelevant replies. Lori confirms that as the channels are going their separate ways that with this update, we will still be able to search on comments, but that the replies will just be for Gagajoyjoy. I reckon that will be a big improvement