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Our staff blog contains news and updates about This Is Who We Are. This is a 'group blog', in which any of our staff team can post entries. Why not start your own?

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Wish all of our members and visitors a Merry Christmas

As we approach the end of 2016, I would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our amazing members, old friends and guest visitors a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. To mark the Yuletide occasion, This Is Who We Are has once again been festively decorated with a choice of two themes, Christmas Noel and White Christmas, created by Sherri at IBTheme. For those who prefer the usual default TIWWA Theme, you can select this or any of the other themes from the Theme selector men
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Win a signed photograph of Sarah-Jane Redmond with TIWWA!

Ladies and gentlemen, As you know, TIWWA has recently introduced a new Skype discussion group to allow members to come together in real-time to chat with each other about our beloved show. Our next meet will take place of Saturday 17th April 8:00pm GMT and all are welcome to take part. As our gathering focusses on Chris Carter's sublime creation, Lucy Butler, we dipped into her mythology to create a bit of fun that will allow Millennium fans to have the chance to win a gorgeous signed pho
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When did you last watch Millennium? New profile section added.

As you probably know, you can include additional data in your profile which shows up next to your posts on the board's forums. A couple of years ago, we added extra text fields and options to display your favourite writers, directors, episode/s and seasons etc. We don't baffle new members by including all of these options on the member registration page, but everyone is free to update their profile at any time with this extra information. Sometimes its for fun, sometimes its useful. Recently
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What you like about Millennium!

Regular visitors to This is who we are will know that we have some optional Profile fields that members can complete at any time, which contain details about their favourite Millennium episodes, seasons, writers and characters. Its fun and of course will be of interest to other members and particularly our friends. Up until now, we've automatically included the majority of this information next to your posts in the forums, but lately we noticed that there was a little too much and the author
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Welcome to the new Staff Blog at TIWWA!

Welcome to the new staff blog at This is who we are! We'll will be doing our best to keep you all up to date with behind-the-scenes news, ramblings and a general heads up of what to expect from TIWWA in the coming months. Its all a bit work in progress, so please bear with us and don't forget to give us any feedback, thoughts or ideas along the way. As far as I know, this will be the first example of a team blog at TIWWA - the difference being that multiple editors (in this case our staff
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Updated Privacy and Community Guidelines

Unless you've been living under a rock, on Mars or have possibly been abducted by The Polaroid Stalker, you will have no doubt heard about changes to Privacy and Data Protection in Europe called General Data Protection Regulation (or GDPR for short). The legislation in reality effects and improves the rights of everyone. As you would expect, we have always respected your privacy and the processing of your personal data/information, and we will continue to do so.  Our community software
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Two new Elders join the TIWWA Staff Team

It is with great pleasure that I extend both congratulations and a warm welcome to two respected TIWWA members Richard and Laura, who as of today have made the transition from Candidate to the the Elder Staff Team. WaveCrest and SpooktalkGiGi, Richard and Laura will this weekend be recovering from their traditional blood letting riverside ceremonies (you should have seen the Health and Safety Risk Assessment forms we had to complete) that take place in a secret location near Bucksnort, f
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Topic Preview

The ability to 'preview' a topic by viewing an excerpt from the first post is another feature coming soon to TIWWA. The developers have made the idea a little more useful by also including the last time you read a topic (if applicable) and the number of unread posts so you can quickly review how much activity has taken place since you last read the topic. When you 'mouse over' a topic entry, you'll see a little 'pop-up' icon. Clicking this loads an excerpt from the first post along with s
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TIWWA Upgrade Coming Soon

It's been over 2 years in the making, but the next major software update to our community software suite is coming soon! V4 of our software has been completely rewritten from the ground up for faster performance, great new features, improvements and functionality, as well as a new, fully responsive theme design, meaning it will scale automatically to fit computers, mobile devices and tablets without needing a separate plain mobile theme for smaller display devices. There are a couple of impor
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TIWWA Software Upgrade - Sunday Nov 15th

I've just upgraded the TIWWA software suite. As with any big update, if you are visiting soon after the upgrade, I strongly recommend that you do a hard refresh to make sure your browser loads the updated versions of the files and isn't using a mix of new and cached old ones which can cause odd things to happen to your experience of our site(!). To do this in Windows, simply hold down the CTRL key and then just press F5 then let go, and it will force your browser to reload all files on th
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TIWWA Member HighPlainsDrifter's challenge to raise $500 for Cancer Charity!

We're very proud to highlight in our staff blog that Joseph McBrayer (known as HighPlainsDrifter), one of our highly popular and much-loved members at This Is Who We Are (TIWWA) has volunteered to help raise $500 of funds for children's cancer charity, St Baldricks, by shaving his head! The St. Baldrick's Foundation is the world's largest volunteer-driven fundraising event for childhood cancer research. At St. Baldrick's events all throughout the year, brave volunteers shave their heads, rais
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TIWWA Is Pleased to announce our competition winners!

Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great pride and pleasure that two lucky winners have been selected from all those who took part in the Easter competitions. I am delighted to announce that the winner of the Millennium Trivia Pursuit Quiz 2010 is Coughcool and the winner of The Launderama of The Soul 2010 is Walkabout. Both these names were chosen at random from the many entries we received and I am sure you will join me in congratulating them. To claim your brand spanking new DVD prizes simp
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TIWWA EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Snedden Interview

TIWWA is a Millennium Community. There is no doubt about that but our admiration and appreciation for all things "Ten Thirteen" is reflected in the content our members share here as well as the flexibility the forum affords you all to indulge in your interests and passions. I am a long time admirer of "The Lone Gunmen" and, in particular, the sterling work Stephen Snedden and Zuleikha Robinson contributed to the enduring popularity of a group of geeks that the "X-Files" made us fall in love w
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TIWWA Announces our Lance Henriksen's 70th Birthday Celebrations

Wednesday May 5th sees Lance Henriksen reach the grand age of 70 years young and as this is a milestone birthday the Millennium Fan Community (thanks to the inspiration of our founder, Graham P Smith) decided it was right and proper to mark the occasion in style and bring as many people together at www.tiwwa.info to celebrate the continuing career of one of the acting profession's brightest luminaries. To help the occasion go with a "boom boom" we have some super articles and videos looking back
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TIWWA announces optional OpenID support

New and existing members at This is who we are now have the choice to log into our community using the popular OpenID functionality for those with OpenID accounts or whom would like to start using one. Please note that this is an optional service for existing or new OpenID members and we are unable to provide technical support. Please see the OpenID website for more information. No changes have been made to your account at TIWWA. You can associate an OpenID identity URL with your account
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TIWWA Announces A New Project To Unleash Your Creativity!

As TIWWA remains committed to its mandate to be the progressive face of Millennium Fandom, it is our intention to explore a new era in bringing enjoyable content to the supporters of our beloved franchise. Forum Elders and our forum's founder, Graham P Smith, have entered into discussion about the possibility of exploring providing a service for you good people that utilises video as means to entertain, inform and unleash your creativity. Something we know you have boundless reserves of.
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TIWWA 4.2 is coming mid 2017!

TIWWA Members and visitors can look forward to the next major release of our community suite software coming mid-2017. Software company IPS are well into development on v4.2 and are excited to start announcing all the new features and improvements. Our next big release is focused on engagement with our members. You will see enhancements to our Reputation system, new ways to encourage people to register on our community, and enhancements to existing features to make them more interactive. Th
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The TIWWA Blackcoats Present: The Millennium Easter TV Weekend!

Ladies and gentlemen, as you may already know, Mark Hayden (our beloved community forum Elder ethsnafu) has been extremely busy along with a fine and generous group of our finest and chocolatey members, to band together with the intention of bringing you a weekend of themed fun to help us celebrate Easter. Our 'TIWWA Blackcoats' have done this in the form of a virtual weekend of televised Millennium events. Over the next two days, on a number of virtual channels, they aim to bring you plenty
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The Time Is Near

TIWWA's staff are now testing the new major revision of our board's software on a copy of a current database. We're going to busy over the next few days getting used to the new features, gadgets, bells, levers and whistles. Brand new default theme TIWWA will feature an all-new default theme for the front end. Reputation system Posts can now be rated, earning the author reputation points which can be highlighted with titles and badges. Personal Conversations Users can now
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The return of Pumpkin Patch - New skin theme now available

The autumnal Thanksgiving inspired 'Pumpkin Patch' skin theme from IBSkin.com is back and now available as the default skin at TIWWA. Pumpkin Patch is a cheerful autumn skin in beautiful warm earth-tone gradients with amazing artistic detail, many custom extras and everything you need to bring in the fall season! Alternatively, if its not for you, you can select another theme or the standard TIWWA Default Theme from your skin chooser menu at the bottom left of the page!
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The Leaderboard - Coming to TIWWA December 2016

In addition to many small bug fixes, this next release includes: For Admins - Accounts flagged as spammers are now more visibly different on the member list in AdminCP The Password form helper can now show a "strength" meter, and set a minimum strength required. Added quite a few new embed providers codepen.io coub.com deviantart.com docs.com funnyordie.com gettyimages.com iFixit.com
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The all new Lance Henriksen Magic - now open!

Following a few months of hard work and some very late nights during which time I've been a bit of a recluse at TIWWA, and as previously mentioned in our staff blog, I'm pleased to announce that the newly overhauled Lance Henriksen Magic is now officially open, and which will make it all the more enjoyable and fun to take an interest in the career of the enigmatic Lance Henriksen. I'm thrilled to say that Lance Henriksen Magic will now be brought to you with the kind assistance of Mark Hayde
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Stability update applied 03.09.15

IPS Community Suite 4.0.13 Released 08/31/2015 Key Changes This release primarily focuses on stability with many bug fixes. In addition to dozens of fixes, important items include: When unflagging a member as a spammer, if any tasks are still queued to delete or hide the member's content the tasks will be cancelled.  This is useful if you flag a user as a spammer and then immediately change your mind and unflag the member. NO_STEP issue during upgrade should now be resolved Lists were not rebuil
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Some recent changes to Member Groups

Greetings TIWWA Members! We've recently made some minor changes and improvements to our Member Groups and Ranks at This Is Who We Are. Also, all members can now edit their own content with no time limitations. So if you have an older really good post with broken images because the images were stored on say Photobucket, but you deleted the image or album at Photobucket image, or Photobucket shut down etc, you can now edit your post at any time and fix those broken images - very handy fo
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