Hello Gather!
We will be conducting a minor site upgrade tonight, Wednesday July 15, 2009 from 11:00pm – 2:30am ET. The site will be unavailable during this time frame. Please be sure to complete any sharing/publishing prior to this time. Check back after 2:30am ET on Thursday to log in and start your day on Gather.
We’re excited about the changes being introduced:
· Gather Point Statement email notifications will be available for interested members
· Post by tag module will be available for groups
· AP content will be added to the News Essential
· Changes and fixes to commenting features
· Improvements to bookmarking
A detailed post outlining the upgrade will be available later today at the Help Desk. Please join the Support team at the Help Desk tomorrow if you have any questions about the changes. We would love to hear your feedback at improve.gather.com.
As always, we appreciate your patience during the upgrade and we look forward to your feedback!


Comments: 43
Thanks for the notice!
Thank you for the notice. It is appreciated.
Thanks for the notice.
Thanks for the notice
If the last major upgrade was "Lennon", would this one qualify as "Ringo"?
Actually this one is Moog. We name our releases alphbetically.
Maryanne,
I know you do the major upgrades alphabetically...I was trying to make a funny..unsuccessfully, I'm afraid.
Oh, I chuckled, Donna!
thanks for letting us know
thanks for the info
Hopefully, this upgrade will go as well as the last several, which were basically flawless. I know that many will appreciate the Associated Press inclusion, but I have found them to be relatively unreliable, even though I worked for them a while back and am still a member of the AP Broadcaster's Association.
Reuters, Agence France Presse, or even the BBC would have more coverage that can be counted on.
Thanks for your input, Walker. This is an exciting trial for us and we will be considering other news sources depending on how the AP content does on the site.
I agree with Walker, MaryAnne. I suggest the Washington Post, New York Times, BBC and Reuters as alternatives.
We get a lot of AP content already, MaryAnne, via way of people posting links...but this way might be much better, then one could start aREAL conversation over current news.
thank you for the heads up
YAY! new toys.
Thanks MaryAnne!
Thanks for the information.
Thanks for the heads MaryAnne , but don't have a clue to the things you talk about changing
Thanks for the notice. I hope readers will be given points for commenting, or why would they read?
Without them, we writers have no reason to post anything.
Good luck with it!
Thank you for your time and patience Maryanne!
Ooo, improvements to bookmarking. I would like to see what they are.
Thanks, so glad you're letting us know, like you always do :)
another upgrade
thanks for the heads up
Thanks for the info!!
Cool (I hope!)
great!
thanks for the notice~
As a night owl, I am going to have to delay uploading a couple of photo albums. However, after having spent over 40 years in IT, I know the value of planning, testing, validation and having alternative plans - all to provide potential backout (or go forward) decisions - along with choosing the best time of day to perform the upgrade.
Thanks for the heads up. Anyone who didn't see your notice just wasn't paying attention!
Thanks for the heads-up. Really helpful, and cuts down on the consternation of the users. Like Jeff K. stated, if someone missed the notice, they either were not awake, or tried to log in during the blackout hours after being away for a while....
Thanks for the heads up.
Thanks for the notice.
thanks for the heads up
Thanks for the update!
Thank you for letting us know. I hope all goes smoothly with this upgrade, and there are no glitches!!!
Thank you for the heads up. I hope everything goes smoothly.
Awesome, it sounds like the site will get even better! :)
Thanks for that! I am already excited to take advantage of those improvements!
thanks!
Thanks MaryAnne. Good luck with it.
I hope all goes well with the upgrade. Thank you for the advance notice.