With the latest upgrade, there is an important change to the way Ship membership works. You must now actively "subscribe" to a ship before you can post on it. To do so, click the "Subscribe" link right above the Roster on any ship. You must then confirm your subscription.

To remove yourself from a ship, click "Manage subscription" (in the same place) and select unsubscribe. You can also optionally ask the system to send you an email every time a new Post is made on the ship if you wish.

There are a couple of new features this change enables, but COs have a little work to do first. :-)

First, it should be noted that currently all current users are subscribed to every ship they have ever visited. That is a lot of ships. :-) All members probably want to unsubscribe from any ship they are not actually on. COs can also view a list of everyone subscribed to their ship via the "Subscribe list" on their admin menu, and can remove those who do not in fact have characters. The IDept strongly encourages everyone to do so.

Second, because we don't have the auto-subscription we can now actually make use of the "Email" tab, which has always been there but I've discouraged people from using. You can use it now without emailing a hundred people you don't want to email... that is, after you clean your subscriber list. :-)

Third, it will now be possible to enable "recent posts on my ships" views so that you can see what has been going on from one single location. While you're subscribed to every ship that is not all that useful, but now it can actually be beneficial. Watch for those coming soon. :-)

We now return you to our regularly scheduled RPG, already in progress.