Welcome Thread for New Member changes

[Freebird]

At the request of Yamagrl, I added the state of the new member to the New Member Welcome Threads. So now it will give you the city and the state. She felt that if people saw a new member from their own state that they might be more inclined to extend their welcome to the group.

 

After I did that though, it prodded me to take another look at something else that you have asked for in the past. That is linking the new members name to their profile. So I finally managed to figure that out also. I Just did it and then tested it by created a new fake user and it did work as it should. I have deleted it now though so you may not see any examples of it until another new user joins up.

[Freebird]

Well the links to the profile worked but caused another issue so I had to change it back. It will still show the city and state of the new member but no link to the profile. For whatever reason, it would work about 50% of the time but when it didn't work, it didn't send out the confirmation email for new members at all so they were unable to get registered. I'm not sure why unless there are some email providers that simply block meals with links in the title. I don't think it's that important anyway because now that you can see the city and state where they are from, I think that's the important thing. After looking at the profiles of a couple where it did work, I'm finding that they have usually not added any other information to the profile anyway.

[bongobobny]

Yup! Always looking for new Western NY members!! Thanks Don!