Firefox users should now see a cleaner face. "melted font" issue solved.

^^ Thanks Castro for the firefox alert. fixed.

We set the standards 4 years ago. It is time we do it again. Nomads, thanks for your suggestions. Caano, you actually have been redirected to the browser specific webpage for firefox browser because you are a firefox user. The "dense font" issue with firefox is something we are aware of and will be taken care of soon Insha Allah. Explorer users (88% of SOLers) don't see the "melted font" look you see. We still appreciate your suggestion my man. In general, we actually have 3 or 4 images. No flash. No complicated colors. Background color is something we can still play with but gray is pretty much what we we have for now. As for the simplicity of the overall site, the forum will stay the same format. Just the logo will be updated and that would be it. It has just started ... PS: for those of you who have "http://www.somaliaonline.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi" as the Somalia Online homepage, please update your bookmark with the proper link --- http://www.somaliaonline.com

Nomads, please bare with us while we make changes to Somalia Online's front page and all the sub sections. In the next couple of weeks, we plan to complete all the missing sub-sections and get out of the "construction mode". 1. Immediate phase Upload pictures Send SMS text Play games New chat History section enuri project Podcasting section Uploader - Upload ringtones, pics to Phone Articles section Photos Shop - Sell quality photos from back home Photohosting - Create photo albums Pictures - Photo forum 2. Second phase Online store Blogging network more stuff Thank you.

Khayr, please respect others and stop the namecalling and the insults against the nomads on this site.

Scientist is banned from SOL.

Nomads, please be civil to one another. Avoid the insults and the blantant or insuniating attacks against one antther. You can debate and discuss issues without loosing your cool. What I have seen on this thread is a clear violation of the forum civility rules and we will not tolerate senior nomads exchanging insults on this forum. All posts in violation of the forum rules will be deleted without a question. This is an important topic and it should be discussed without all the garbage I have seen.

Mungu akupe eman na akuongeze maisha marefu,uzidi kuwafundisha luga yetu ya TAIFA.

Nimefurahi sana kuona umeandika kiswahili kama kabisaa cha nyumbani,Mungu akubariki

Nimefurahi sana kuona umeandika kiswahili kama kabisaa cha nyumbani,Mungu akubariki

Nomads, the site was down because of an overwhelming traffic issue. SOL has been experiencing a larger than normal traffic lately and yesterday our server just gave up. It just had enough. We hope to solve this issue by upgrading our system.

After a long consultation with the moderator of this section, we made the decision that Jumatatu is best to leave this forum and can only come back if the nomad admits that he broke the golden rules of the forum and will not do so in the future. No "FAWDO", "hebel did it also" or "I can say whatever I want" sort of talk flies well with SOL. The rules are the same. Everyone must obey. No one is above the rules. We will never allow such detestable, sadistic insult become the norm in this section of the forum. “Attacking” personalities, warlords, rebel groups or any other hebel-created organization is legitimate and within the rules of SOL as long as the “vulgarity” rule is not broken. In our judgment, such an attack is not synonymous with a tribal attack. This rule has always been here and it will stay that way. Control your words. We don't care about your intentions. We leave that to Allah.” – that has been the slogan for the politics section. MMA has been doing a good job and it is very clear to us that the quality of this section has dramatically improved since he became a moderator. The usual fights are less frequent now, the insults are down, and for the first time the nomads who were only active in the politics section are becoming active in other sections of SOL. That is a positive change. Insha Allah things will even get better and the politics section will become a forum for high quality political debates. We are seeing the trend already.

To all the nomads specially those who sent the "angry" personal emails complaining about the downtime, we truly regret the inconvenience. This was a datacenter networking problem beyond our control.

This is MMA's investigation. I know he will be fair and the many individuals who are hiding in this forum with the "multiple clan/multiple nicknames" will be caught and banned from this forum.

I have brought the issue of HornAfrique/Wind.Talker double identity to the attention of the moderator of this section MMA. Him and I will make a complete investigation into the identity of HornAfrique and Wind.Talker which on our preliminary data shows to be of the same person. There are some individuals who have double identity on this politics forum and that is a clear violation of SOL rules. Anyone caught with such violation will be banned from SOL. We have to get rid of all those who abuse the site with garbage tribal talk, insults, multiple clan identity, etc. On the same token, any active defiance of our civility rules will not be tolerated.

If you have the "new mail" icon blinking on your browser without any new mail, you can get rid of it by opening your "SENT" folder and re-reading some of your messages. It is a cookie problem and that seems to solve the problem.

Nomads we have had problems with our server and all the private message are lost. Everyone's private message box is empty. We apologize for the inconvenience. This was something beyond our control. As you can notice, our site is a bid slower today. We are working to solve this "speed" issue and Insha Allah everything should get back to normal. Thank You.

Please don't post complaint topics. Do not turn genuine topics into complaints. The whole topic will be deleted (regardless of who posted it) and your username/identity blocked. Those who are here to disturb the peace will not be tolerated. Any individual seen to be taking advantage of that unfortunate Hibo/Athena personal exchange (which SOL has seen many times before) will be seen as having the motives to cause harm to SOL, its Admins and its good users. It is very personal for Admins. Vandalism and sabotage are not the conducts of what we consider a "nomad". Please do respect the rules of the website. PS: we ban individuals based on our own evidence. Ban Hibo or hebel, sack Athena or hebla are not something we were/are willing to listen to. We make our own decisions as to who to ban from SOL and who should be our moderator. Please don’t take advantage of the heated personal exchange between these two nomads who have both contributed to this forum in a positive way. FYI: the edit time limit is 12 hours as many of you have requested some kind of an extension beyond the 15 minutes we initially put in place.

Promoting your website/product on SOL forums without permission is clearly against the rules of Somalia Online? I will delete this topic after you read my comment.

Nomadic_Activist, you are banned from Somalia Online. Posting tribal names on SOL is something you seem to enjoy. You ignored our rules many times. Good luck.

************Sheik Cawad you are banned from Somalia Online. You made a habit of using tribal names on our website. **********

--- Direct personal attacks --- Insults --- Name-calling --- Indirect tribal insults --- Tribal names --- Bad-mouthing a whole society/region These have become the norm in this section lately. We will not tolerate this any further. This forum is a moderated forum. It is not an "open for everything" forum. There are folks here who feel insult, not intellect, is their only weapon for any political discussion. Very sad indeed. We have reached the conclusion that some individuals must be banned from this forum in order to bring stability and high level discussions back to the political section. That is the only solution to this mayhem. We will keep monitoring this section and ban silently those individuals who are here to ruin the quality of this section. For us this is very, very personal. Again, we apologize to our readers.

SHEIKH CAWAD, please don't post tribal names on our website again. If you are not familiar with our rules, we don't tolerate tribal names on this forum. ***** This is your first warning **********

^^ SKY and WIND.TALKER, please edit tribal names from your post. This is absolutely unacceptable. If you guys keep disrespecting the rules of the website, we would have no choice but to suspend your posting rights. We have rules. Please respect them. No mention of any derogatory tribal nicknames. Please. Warning. Admin Somalia Online Team

^^ It should work now. The glidge is solved.