Site Updates

There have been quite a few changes and additions to the website this month so I thought I would take a moment to share some of them with you.

• Points & Badges: Check out your user profile and you will see you now have a badge or two and a some coins. You can earn coins by browsing the website, posting comments, uploading a picture to your profile (this is a big one...20 coins) and other things around the site. The number of coins you collect will also affect your user badges in the forums. In the near future you will be able to earn even more coins by inviting your friends to the site and having them register. You will also be able to exchange your coins for discounts on products here on the Lost Treasure website. This is just one more way of saying THANK YOU for all you do.
• Buddies are Back: Check out the new buddies list by going to TH'ers Info -> Treasure Buddies and see what you think. We already have nearly 2500 registered users of the website that you may connect with. Let's see how many we can get this month, tell your friends to create an account and fill out their profile!
• Forum Attachments: You can now attach photos and other documents to your forum topics and comments. This feature is only available to registered users, so create a free account today if you haven't already and start posting those finds to our forums for everyone to see.
• New Products: The mall has been growing lately and now includes the ability to purchase articles from the Lost Treasure Archives and over 1,500 historic maps (I will be adding some more descriptive text to these shortly)
• New Features: You can now add some information about your self such as where you live, and your actual first and last name to your user profile once you are registered with the site. You can also set each field to either display only for you or publicly for everyone to see. Filling out your user profile will also make the sweepstakes entries alot faster as the site will automatically fill in any information you have entered in your profile once you login. In addition, the city, state, and country profile tags link to pages showing you all of the other members of the website from that location. This should replace the old 'Treasure Buddies' we had on the old site for connecting with people in your area. So spread the word and get your friends to register with the site and fill out their profiles. I know it may seem a bit redundant, but the information under 'addresses' is just for product shipping in the mall and not part of your user profile that can be viewed by others. Ohh, and just so you know, you can access your profile by clicking 'My account' on the left then 'Edit' and 'my profile'. Hope to see you all filling those out soon!
• Coming Soon: I am working on integrating the comments here on the site directly with twitter and vice versa to increase our expose and ease of use. I am also planning on making our community here more interactive by adding features such as friends lists and the ability to send private messages to other users. Do you have any other ideas to help improve the site? Let me know. We may even allow users to post and maintain their own blogs right here on losttreasure.com. Let me know what you think.