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author: einar
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date: 2009-06-27 23:18:47+00:00
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title: A brand new look for KDE Community forums
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- KDE
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- forums
- KDE
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Today, a major upgrade of the [KDE Community Forums](http://forum.kde.org) took place. The change brings quite a number of changes to the forums themselves, and it's a further step towards providing a better experience for KDE users (and developers too!).


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The new forums, powered by [phpBB](http://phpbb.com), have a whole new theme, heavily inspired by KDE 4.3's "Air" Plasma theme:

[![Image of the new forum theme](http://www.dennogumi.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/newoforum-resized.png)](http://www.dennogumi.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/newoforum.png)

Not only the looks have improved, however. A number of features have been added:

  * The ability of tagging a specific thread;
  * A new, improved reputation system;
  * A _friends connection_ system where you can mark other users as friends and interact more easily with them;

The popular section "KDE Brainstorm" has also received improvements, such as the ability of having a neutral vote, an improved voting pad, and a brand new look to match the one of the forums.

[![Image: new Brainstorm look](http://www.dennogumi.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/brainstorm-thumb.png)](http://www.dennogumi.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/brainstorm.png)

As a final note, we would like to thank phpBB developers cs278, naderman and NeoThermic for their kind assistance and great support during the migration process. Thanks a lot!

Take a tour around the new KDE Community Forums, and [let us know what you think!](http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=62056)
