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As part of the evolution of Bungie.net, we are continually working on new features and updates to make the site a better place for everyone. Today marks our latest "big" update, but rest assured there are a lot of plans still underway for additional feature improvements, community integration and the much anticipated Halo 2 connectivity. Stay tuned!

New Forums!

Since the first day the new Bungie.net launched, our forums have been the most popular section on the site. In fact, as of yesterday morning, we've already logged over 90,600 forum posts! (that's roughly 2,150 posts per day)

As you all know, it hasn't exactly been easy to wade through the flood of posts and topics in our new forums. Today we added 5 new forums in hopes of spreading out the load and refining the topics of discussion to make things a little less chaotic. We all love The Underground, but the subject matter was so broad it was impossible to keep up with.

The new forums are as follows:

* New Mombasa
Dedicated to anything and everything related to Halo 2!

* The Library
New forum devoted strictly to talk about Halo 1 for Xbox

* Voting Booth
This is the place to vote in Official Bungie.net Polls. Only we can create them, but anyone can vote and add their 2 cents.

* The Classifieds
This is the place to promote and recruit members for your 7th Column Chapter

* The Flood
Ok, you asked for it and here it is... This is the official "off topic" forum. Go here to discuss all the stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. This is still moderated though and the rules still apply, so don't get carried away.

One other change that was made is the addition of new forum avatars! Check your 'my settings' page and you should see about 30 new ones to choose from. More importantly, Acrhonos has given us the ability to easily add them going forward so we can continue to expand the library without having to rely on the almightly Overlord.

That's not all that was changed.... Go to page two for the rest of it.
The 7th Column

Remember back when we launched the new Bungie.net and we talked a little bit about the 7th Column and what the future had in store? Well, if you recall, we also talked about the fact that the 7th Column is currently still running on the old and decrepit hardware and code and that it wouldn't be able to sustain itself much longer if new users continued to poor in. Unfortunately, that time is now upon us.

With the huge flood of new members into the Bungie.net community since our launch, the number of new chapters has increased dramatically and frankly the old site just can't keep up. Rather than sacrifice the 7th Column for everyone, including our existing founders who have put so much time and energy into creating great chapters, we've decided to stop all future chapter creation in order to keep the site functioning at little longer. The bad news is that newcomers won't be able to create a new chapter for themselves right now, but the good news is that the 7th Column SHOULD hold together long enough to allow existing members to continue business as usual. You can still join chapters and participate in the Column, you just can't create your own chapter for now.

We're hard at work behind the scenes creating the next iterations of Bungie.net which will include the integration of the 7th Column into the new hotness. The updated community functionality is expected to be ready to roll out some time in the next few months, hopefully before v2.0 is released in November. Until then, please continue to enjoy all that Bungie.net has to offer and be sure to check out any of the thousands of outstanding chapters that already exist on the site.


Thanks to everyone for the ongoing support for our new site as well as your patience as we continue to evolve into something even cooler!


  • 05.25.2004 12:04 PM PDT
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[color=white]"Well done" is all I've got to say. ;D[/color]

  • 05.25.2004 12:11 PM PDT
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Very cool, thanks for the breakdown.

  • 05.25.2004 12:18 PM PDT
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Where the hell is page 2?

  • 05.25.2004 12:22 PM PDT

This post provided by Halo Babies.

I'm wondering the same thing.

  • 05.25.2004 12:23 PM PDT

"I'm just a glorified extra." -Guy, Galaxy Quest

Thank you Bungie for the new avatars, and for that matter the new forums as well =)

  • 05.25.2004 12:41 PM PDT

Tom Achronos
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"I have no words that would do justice to the atrocities you commit to the English language, as well as your continued assaults on the concepts of basic literacy and logical reasoning."

Posted by: H2 Tester
Where the hell is page 2?


There is no page 2, that was just a typo.

  • 05.25.2004 12:43 PM PDT
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Very sweet but wheres the new screnshots!

  • 05.25.2004 2:31 PM PDT
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how about making the website work with firefox? i cant use my scroll wheel. :(

  • 05.25.2004 3:05 PM PDT
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Hey, someone also put the "Forum" link back on top of that little box on the top right corner!

  • 05.25.2004 3:06 PM PDT

This post provided by Halo Babies.

Hey speaking of new avatars, does anyone have a link to the avatar submission page? I can't seem to find it anywhere.

  • 05.25.2004 3:57 PM PDT
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hate to be an echo, but i luv the new avatars.

<--correct me if im wrong, but those are dual SMGs in my pic, right?

  • 05.25.2004 4:38 PM PDT
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I'm likin the Classics section!

  • 05.25.2004 4:44 PM PDT
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You have just complicated my life.

*sigh*

  • 05.25.2004 5:14 PM PDT
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Who farted?





wasn't me

  • 05.25.2004 7:29 PM PDT
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That's no fart... [i]it's an Atom Bomb![/b]

  • 05.25.2004 7:34 PM PDT
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Wow, I'm glad I got my Seventh Column chapter started right before the stopping of new chapters.

  • 05.26.2004 2:52 PM PDT
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whats the gigantic change we won't see?
come on you can tell us...

  • 06.03.2004 9:35 AM PDT
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by the way, you can't upload avatars, overwise there might be too many or inpropriete ones(sorry if i mispelt that). Bungie wouldn't have the time to approve them all, so there no avatar upload.

p.s does anyone else have some problem when they clicck the ''Edit Post'' button?

  • 06.03.2004 9:40 AM PDT
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HEY WHATS THAT 7TH COLUMN IM NEW AT THIS SO PLEASE TELL MY

  • 08.23.2005 9:29 PM PDT
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HEY WHATS THAT 7TH COLUMN IM NEW AT THIS SO PLEASE TELL ME

  • 08.23.2005 9:30 PM PDT