Forum: OptiBoard News and Announcements

The upgrade took longer than expected. In fact it's still not done. For instance the search index is continuing to rebuild and at the rate it's going it will probably take another 8 hours to finish. Nonetheless everything appears to be fine. You will notice a new Home page. I installed this...

Just a quick note to let everyone know that I will be upgrading OptiBoard today. I think you will like the changes. This is a major upgrade so when this happens the site will likely be closed for a couple of hours, hopefully less. Wish me luck!

I am very pleased to announce the new main sponsor for OptiBoard - Younger Optics Of course most of us in the business are familiar with Younger. But did you know that Younger is the World's Largest Independently owned lens company. In addition here are some other things you may have not known:...

For the first time in thirteen years, there is an opening for a Main Sponsor for OptiBoard, the world’s oldest and largest online community of eye care professionals. OptiBoard has grown so much over the past fifteen years, and our community has evolved into something really special. (If you...

FYI: As part of the holiday spirit I have added a Christmas style to OptiBoard. You can choose that at the bottom of the screen.

It has come to my attention that commercial job placement companies are using OptiBoard to place positions for jobs that require the prospective employee to pay. This is a violation of the spirit of OptiBoard which started as the Optical Help Wanted Page and was designed to help people find jobs or...

You guys are famous now. Check it out under: Eyeing a VP http://www.truveo.com/Eyeing-a-VP/id/3580831501 And here's the specific thread they showed: http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31456

Recently we had some very virulent posts from a member with a frontiernet.net account. After providing all the information about this person and their abuse of OptiBoad to frontiernet.net, they refused to do anything at all. Instead their response was rude and extremely insulting to me personally ...

I am pleased to announce that I have upgraded OptiBoard to vB version 3.7.0. This version includes a number of new features. Rather than tell you what these are, I though it would be interesting to see if you can find them :) Note: There are new features that are only availale to OptiBoard...

I am pleased to announce that I have added two paid subscription options to OptiBoard: OptiBoard Bronze Level This premium subscription allows members to post ads in the Optical Marketplace forum and allows access to the new Eyecare Professionals Only forum. This does not hide Google Ads for...

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Bellsouth has started rejecting ALL OptiBoard emails with this false claim: 550 bellsouth.net requires valid sender domain {need mx} OptiBoard.com does have MX records as I tried to point out to them on July 22nd: They have refused to respond. I believe the only way to get them to...

I am pleased to announce that Vision Systems, Inc. has just signed on as a sponsor of the Optical Marketplace forum. VSI is located in Tarpon Springs, Florida and is the industry leader in providing pre-owned optical equipment. Please join me in welcoming VSI as an OptiBoard sponsor and...

I am pleased to announce that OptiBoard now has two new sponsors - VisionWeb and Carl Zeiss Vision. Carl Zeiss Vision is now sponsoring the Progressive Lens Discussion forum. VisionWeb is an OptiBoard Corporate Sponsor and has their own VisionWeb forum in which they will post items of...

I am closing OptiPedia.org. I don't have the time to devote to it and unfortunately it does not appear that anyone else does either. It was a worthy goal to come up with an Optical Encyclopedia for Optical and Vision Care related articles and information, but without anyone to work on this it...

As some of you may have noticed I have added Google Ads to OptiBoard. I tried to hold off as long as I could but the simple fact is that I need the extra income that hopefully these ads will help produce. While OptiBoard generates the same income it did in 1998, my costs and investment have risen...

I have heard from a number of people that the 6-8 hours a day they spend on OptiBoard just isn't enough. They need more - hopefully something that can occupy another 4-5 hours a day So in response to these uber-geeks who crave even more reasons to spend on OptiBioard I have installed the new...

Because of increasing spam and abuse from users with 'free' email accounts such as yahoo.com, gmail.com hotmail.com, etc. - all such email domains are now banned from registering on OptiBoard. We regret having to take this step but the abuse from these people leaves us with no other choice.

OptiBoard was started in 1995 as a resource for 'Eyecare Professionals'. However recently it is gaining many newer members who are consumers looking for advice and information. The problem is that almost all of these consumer posts are asking for specific diagnostic information, which is not...

One of the things people keep asking for is what is the breakdown of OptiBoard memebrs by occupation. Up to now we haven't been able to get a good hanlde on this. But now with the latest software upgrade we can makie this a required field for all members, whether they have registerewd or not. ...

OptiBoard is proud to annnounce that the Vision Council of America's Optical Career Center has agreed to sponsor the OptiBoard Job Board. In addition to a banner and link to the OCC site from the Job Board, OptiBoard will also import any new job offerings on the OCC page via it's RSS feed. You...

OptiBoard will be undergoing a major upgrade to the vBulletin software this Saturday. Because it's a major upgrade with lots of changes, the site may be unavailable most of the day. Sorry for the inconvenience but I think you'll like some of the new features.

It appears that verizon.net is now blocking all emails fromk optiboard.com. Here is a typical bounce message: SMTP error from remote mail server after MAIL FROM:<*****@optiboard.com> SIZE=1919: host relay.verizon.net : 550 Email from your Email Service Provider is currently blocked by...

To make it easier for people to submit product reviews we no longer require submissions be pre-approved. You can post your reviews directly. Please read the updated guidelines here: http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php?p=50529#post50529

I am pleased to announce a new venture entitled Optipedia.org. This is a new project to develop and maintain an online encyclopedia containing articles related to the Vision and Eyecare field and profession. Some of you may already be familiar with Wikipedia.com which has a growing online...

There will be a meeting for OptiBoarders attending Vision Expo West on Friday, September 16, at 3:00 p.m. The kind folks at Boucher Communications have offered their booth for this meeting (#3109). While I won't be able to attend for personal reasons, I hope you will all be able to meet and...

In cooperation with Quantom Optical, OptiBoard is pleased to announce a special Onlince CE offer for OptiBoard Members. 1 additional FREE online CE credit when you sign up for a Gold account 2 additional FREE online CE credits when you sign up for a Platinum account You can read about this...

I've added a link on OptiBoard to the CNN Hurricane Katrina Help Center. Here you will find links under the following categories: How You Can Help Donate & Volunteer Get Help Locate the Missing Find Local Information I'm also going to see if I can find any affected Optical...

Just a reminder to please not post copyrighted stories and materials on the Board. If there is a story you want to post about, the Fair Use Doctrine can be difficult to interpret but it would appear to allow a brief example or summary of the material followed by a link to the complete article. ...

After 4 yours on the same server (and two hard drive replacements) OptiBoard is being moved to a brand new server. The new server has 4 times the processor speed and twice the memory of the old server so things should zip along pretty well on it. :) I am going to begin the OptiBoard migration...

I recently changed the OptiBoard File Directory forum so that all of the submitted files can be accessed directly from within OptiBoard. You can download these files here: http://www.optiboard.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=34 You can also post comments and questions about these files in the...

Some of you may have noticed I added a section to the bottom of OptiBoard with links to various relief agencies. Please donate as much as you can and as quickly as you can to help with the tremendous relief efforts that are needed to help the survivors and families recover from this horrendous...

For those of you who like a darker color scheme, check out the new 'OptiBoard Red' style. You can change the style option temporarily via the drop-down box at the bottom of the page, or through thr User CP options.

I am please to announce the addition of two new forums and Moderators for OptiBoard: Geek Eye for the Non-Geek Guy (and Gal) This forum is for all your computer related questions and is Moderated by long-time OptiBoard member Sean. The second forum is: Opticians Association of...

Tomorrow - Sunday May 2nd - I will be performing a major update of the software that runs OptiBoard. Because of this the forums will likely be down for several hours while I upgrade the software and reset everything. I think you will be pleased by the upgrade. There will be a lot more new...

In memory of my daughter Elizabeth, there will be no OptiBoard Community Newsletter this month.

Welcome to the special Vision Expo West edition of the OptiBoard Community Newsletter. Just a quick note to let you know there will two two meetings of OptiBoard members at this year's VEW in Las Vegas. The first will be held on Friday September 19 at 9:30am at the Shamir booth ((#12075), and...

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