Hi Everyone,

A few quick notes.

First I'd like to tell you, that as you probably noticed the community continues to grow very fast. We have more than 300,000 monthly visitors and growing fast! A lot of the credit goes to you guys for the great help you are offering each other and the family warmth felt in every group. Thank you ;-)

I'm happy to announce that we've finally changed the ranking system of the site.Many of you contacted us regarding the old system and said it is hard to understand what comes before what and how it works. The new rankings algorithm calculates all the activity on site and generates 5 different rankings.

• New Comer - the first few days before you have enough posts, diary entries, article, hugs etc'
• Member - the majority of the people in MDJunction will get this rank after some time on site.
• Senior Member - this rank is for people who are heavily involved in group activity and helping others. Not many members in this rank right now. I hope more will join soon ;-)
• VIP Member - this rank is yet to be awarded (although some Senior Members are near by) and represents exceptional well doing on every aspect of the community.
• The last rank is Group Leader. It is not calculated by the algorithm. Group leaders are chosen by the site administrators.

* I would like to say again. The rankings are determined by the system automatically. We do not stop anyone from reaching a higher rank. You just need to keep active and nice....

The third (and last) is that we've opened up the articles section of every support group that everyone can now publish articles. The link is at the top of the article page or at the bottom of every article.

An article can be many things. An informational article (facts about the condition, common symptoms, leading clinics, famous people etc'), personal stories (personal experience, success stories, failures, family members, thoughts about what you experiencing....), it can also be helpful material (how to read test results, guide to the newly diagnosed, most common question about etc') and anything else you wrote and think is worth publishing (Poems, Goals...).

Have fun with it!

I hope we all have a great week.

roy