<![CDATA[Psoriasis Club - Announcements]]> https://psoriasisclub.org/ Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:53:53 +0000 MyBB <![CDATA[Sixteenth Birthday]]> https://psoriasisclub.org/thread-8475.html Fri, 01 May 2026 05:37:14 -0400 Fred]]> https://psoriasisclub.org/thread-8475.html Happy Sixteenth Birthday
I never remember the exact date but in May 2010 I started Psoriasis Club, and I'm pleased to say that we are still here 16 years later thanks to all our members that help keep the forum active.

I've always said I will keep it going whilst it is helping at least one person and looking at the numbers it's not just helping our members today, but although social media has taken over it's nice to see guests reading and even better when we get a new member start joining in. I've seen a lot of members come and go over the years and that is their choice, but sometimes I do wish they would say why they no longer post.

I am honoured to have such a great bunch of people from around the world to make it worth my while to keep Psoriasis Club going, it makes me feel happy that each day there is someone finding support from like-minded people in a friendly atmosphere.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you that help keep Psoriasis Club active, even a log-in now and then helps so if you haven't logged-in for a while pop in and enjoy our 16th birthday.

If you often log-in thank you very much for your continued support.

Regards.

Fred.

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* Members can post a comment if they wish.]]> Happy Sixteenth Birthday
I never remember the exact date but in May 2010 I started Psoriasis Club, and I'm pleased to say that we are still here 16 years later thanks to all our members that help keep the forum active.

I've always said I will keep it going whilst it is helping at least one person and looking at the numbers it's not just helping our members today, but although social media has taken over it's nice to see guests reading and even better when we get a new member start joining in. I've seen a lot of members come and go over the years and that is their choice, but sometimes I do wish they would say why they no longer post.

I am honoured to have such a great bunch of people from around the world to make it worth my while to keep Psoriasis Club going, it makes me feel happy that each day there is someone finding support from like-minded people in a friendly atmosphere.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you that help keep Psoriasis Club active, even a log-in now and then helps so if you haven't logged-in for a while pop in and enjoy our 16th birthday.

If you often log-in thank you very much for your continued support.

Regards.

Fred.

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* Members can post a comment if they wish.]]> <![CDATA[UK age checks]]> https://psoriasisclub.org/thread-8308.html Sun, 13 Jul 2025 10:24:47 -0400 Fred]]> https://psoriasisclub.org/thread-8308.html
  • Facial age estimation – you show your face via photo or video, and technology analyses it to estimate your age. 
  • Open banking – you give permission for the age-check service to securely access information from your bank about whether you are over 18. The age-check service then confirms this with the site or app.
  • Digital identity services – these include digital identity wallets, which can securely store and share information which proves your age in a digital format.
  • Credit card age checks – you provide your credit card details and a payment processor checks if the card is valid. As you must be over 18 to obtain a credit card this shows you are over 18.
  • Email-based age estimation – you provide your email address, and technology analyses other online services where it has been used – such as banking or utility providers - to estimate your age.  
  • Mobile network operator age checks – you give your permission for an age-check service to confirm whether or not your mobile phone number has age filters applied to it. If there are no restrictions, this confirms you are over 18. 
  • Photo-ID matching – this is similar to a check when you show a document. For example, you upload an image of a document that shows your face and age, and an image of yourself at the same time – these are compared to confirm if the document is yours. 

Psoriasis Club does not allow pornography or harmful content, but I want to make sure I am in compliance so I have completed their on-line questioner and they have confirmed I do not need to comply.

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* Obviously I can't be here 24/7 but should you ever see any posts against our sign-up agreement please hit the report button or us the Contact page

Fred.]]>
  • Facial age estimation – you show your face via photo or video, and technology analyses it to estimate your age. 
  • Open banking – you give permission for the age-check service to securely access information from your bank about whether you are over 18. The age-check service then confirms this with the site or app.
  • Digital identity services – these include digital identity wallets, which can securely store and share information which proves your age in a digital format.
  • Credit card age checks – you provide your credit card details and a payment processor checks if the card is valid. As you must be over 18 to obtain a credit card this shows you are over 18.
  • Email-based age estimation – you provide your email address, and technology analyses other online services where it has been used – such as banking or utility providers - to estimate your age.  
  • Mobile network operator age checks – you give your permission for an age-check service to confirm whether or not your mobile phone number has age filters applied to it. If there are no restrictions, this confirms you are over 18. 
  • Photo-ID matching – this is similar to a check when you show a document. For example, you upload an image of a document that shows your face and age, and an image of yourself at the same time – these are compared to confirm if the document is yours. 

Psoriasis Club does not allow pornography or harmful content, but I want to make sure I am in compliance so I have completed their on-line questioner and they have confirmed I do not need to comply.

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* Obviously I can't be here 24/7 but should you ever see any posts against our sign-up agreement please hit the report button or us the Contact page

Fred.]]> <![CDATA[Quarter Million]]> https://psoriasisclub.org/thread-7945.html Sun, 10 Dec 2023 09:07:14 -0500 Fred]]> https://psoriasisclub.org/thread-7945.html Psoriasis Club has reached a new milestone of 250000 posts
What can I say, I never thought I would ever see this day and to be honest I'm feeling a little emotional. Some of you will know it's been one hell of a journey for me since 2010, I won't go over it all again but for those that don't know there were people that didn't want Psoriasis Club to survive in the beginning.

But here we are with 1/4 million posts* and I can only thank all our members for what they have done, I've just provided the platform and I certainly couldn't have done it by myself. Over the years I have seen members come and go, some of you have been here a very long time but even new members have encouraged me to keep the place going.

I used to say I will keep it going as long as it is helping one person and that still stands as I have made a promise to keep going till mid 2025. I also made another promise to our members that in 2024 they will have the chance to talk about the future of Psoriasis Club, it's what I do ....................... the members are the forum, they will say they need me but I say "I need them"

Download this to remember that you helped get us here in 2023

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Thank you all so much it means a lot to me to achieve this milestone. 78


*Not all posts are seen by our guests and our members see more.]]> Psoriasis Club has reached a new milestone of 250000 posts
What can I say, I never thought I would ever see this day and to be honest I'm feeling a little emotional. Some of you will know it's been one hell of a journey for me since 2010, I won't go over it all again but for those that don't know there were people that didn't want Psoriasis Club to survive in the beginning.

But here we are with 1/4 million posts* and I can only thank all our members for what they have done, I've just provided the platform and I certainly couldn't have done it by myself. Over the years I have seen members come and go, some of you have been here a very long time but even new members have encouraged me to keep the place going.

I used to say I will keep it going as long as it is helping one person and that still stands as I have made a promise to keep going till mid 2025. I also made another promise to our members that in 2024 they will have the chance to talk about the future of Psoriasis Club, it's what I do ....................... the members are the forum, they will say they need me but I say "I need them"

Download this to remember that you helped get us here in 2023

[Image: 2023.png]

Thank you all so much it means a lot to me to achieve this milestone. 78


*Not all posts are seen by our guests and our members see more.]]> <![CDATA[New homepage]]> https://psoriasisclub.org/thread-6350.html Sun, 07 Jul 2019 11:42:28 -0400 Fred]]> https://psoriasisclub.org/thread-6350.html https://psoriasisclub.com

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The idea behind it is two fold.

#1 We needed to make a responsive page as Google were dropping us from their search results. Unfortunately there isn't a good way of making the forum phone friendly, and although we've never had the need for a homepage before it's the only thing we can do to try and please Google.

No doubt they will move the goalposts again like they usually do as we will never pay to rank higher in searches, but we keep fighting back.

#2 The new homepage gives the basics about psoriasis and what we do, our hope is that it will encourage our readers to come and have a look at our forum. Once they are reading through the 150,000+ posts they will see that we are just people with psoriasis and it may encourage them to come and join us.

I hope you like the new homepage, it's probably not of mush use to most of you as the point of Psoriasis Club is a forum. But we're not known for giving up when a new challenge pops up. Thank you to those members that helped shape and test the new homepage I appreciate it. 

The next step is for me to keep telling Google we are conforming (allbeit not possible with the forum) and they are not only punishing us, but also genuine people with psoriasis looking for honest reliable news, information and support.

On the part of our members you can also help by promoting https://psoriasisclub.com on your social media outlets. *Please do not go spamming though  NoNo

I have put it on Twitter and Pinterest and noticed already some of you have reposted it (thank you) but I don't use social media much so it's over to you.

To our lurkers of the forum if you feel we have helped you please feel free to give us mention somewhere, or better still come on in and join us.

*The forum is still at it's address https://psoriasisclub.org where it has been since we started so you won't have to change your bookmarks or log-in details.

Hope you like it and feedback is welcome.

Fred.]]> https://psoriasisclub.com

[Image: SBKDiFi.png]

The idea behind it is two fold.

#1 We needed to make a responsive page as Google were dropping us from their search results. Unfortunately there isn't a good way of making the forum phone friendly, and although we've never had the need for a homepage before it's the only thing we can do to try and please Google.

No doubt they will move the goalposts again like they usually do as we will never pay to rank higher in searches, but we keep fighting back.

#2 The new homepage gives the basics about psoriasis and what we do, our hope is that it will encourage our readers to come and have a look at our forum. Once they are reading through the 150,000+ posts they will see that we are just people with psoriasis and it may encourage them to come and join us.

I hope you like the new homepage, it's probably not of mush use to most of you as the point of Psoriasis Club is a forum. But we're not known for giving up when a new challenge pops up. Thank you to those members that helped shape and test the new homepage I appreciate it. 

The next step is for me to keep telling Google we are conforming (allbeit not possible with the forum) and they are not only punishing us, but also genuine people with psoriasis looking for honest reliable news, information and support.

On the part of our members you can also help by promoting https://psoriasisclub.com on your social media outlets. *Please do not go spamming though  NoNo

I have put it on Twitter and Pinterest and noticed already some of you have reposted it (thank you) but I don't use social media much so it's over to you.

To our lurkers of the forum if you feel we have helped you please feel free to give us mention somewhere, or better still come on in and join us.

*The forum is still at it's address https://psoriasisclub.org where it has been since we started so you won't have to change your bookmarks or log-in details.

Hope you like it and feedback is welcome.

Fred.]]> <![CDATA[Unused Accounts]]> https://psoriasisclub.org/thread-1097.html Fri, 30 Nov 2012 08:39:18 -0500 Fred]]> https://psoriasisclub.org/thread-1097.html This affects members accounts that have never been used.

By default accounts not activated within 24 Hrs are deleted, but we still have some accounts that have been activated yet no posts or further log-ins have been made. This is a ploy sometimes used by spammers, so from now on I will be deleting any accounts with zero posts that have not logged-in in the past twelve months.

How will this affect me?
  • Members with at least one post: Your account will remain open and you don't need to do anything.
  • Members who have logged-in at least once in the past twelve months: Your account will remain open and you don't need to do anything.
  • Members with zero posts who have not logged-in in the past twelve months: Your account will be deleted.

Accounts that are deleted will have to go through the registration process again to get full access and privileges of membership*.

If you have any questions please ask.

*Registered members have more privileges than guests, including member only boards, and extra facilities such as search, notifications, personal notepad, PM system, etc, but you need to log on to use them.]]> This affects members accounts that have never been used.

By default accounts not activated within 24 Hrs are deleted, but we still have some accounts that have been activated yet no posts or further log-ins have been made. This is a ploy sometimes used by spammers, so from now on I will be deleting any accounts with zero posts that have not logged-in in the past twelve months.

How will this affect me?
  • Members with at least one post: Your account will remain open and you don't need to do anything.
  • Members who have logged-in at least once in the past twelve months: Your account will remain open and you don't need to do anything.
  • Members with zero posts who have not logged-in in the past twelve months: Your account will be deleted.

Accounts that are deleted will have to go through the registration process again to get full access and privileges of membership*.

If you have any questions please ask.

*Registered members have more privileges than guests, including member only boards, and extra facilities such as search, notifications, personal notepad, PM system, etc, but you need to log on to use them.]]> <![CDATA[E-Mails from Psoriasis Club]]> https://psoriasisclub.org/thread-482.html Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:47:29 -0500 Fred]]> https://psoriasisclub.org/thread-482.html
The emails are sent for account activation, new post notifications, PM notifications, Important announcements, Etc.

Please make sure you check your Spam Folder to see if there are any messages from Psoriasis Club, and mark them as not spam. Also make sure you have the relevant box's ticked in your User CP > Edit Options.

Any problems let me know.]]>
The emails are sent for account activation, new post notifications, PM notifications, Important announcements, Etc.

Please make sure you check your Spam Folder to see if there are any messages from Psoriasis Club, and mark them as not spam. Also make sure you have the relevant box's ticked in your User CP > Edit Options.

Any problems let me know.]]> <![CDATA[Activation Email *Important please read.]]> https://psoriasisclub.org/thread-449.html Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:15:55 -0500 Fred]]> https://psoriasisclub.org/thread-449.html
You will not be able to use the forum as a member until you activate your account. this procedure is necessary to prove the registration was not via a spambot.

Please Note: To help prevent registrations from spambots any account not activated within 24 hours will be deleted.]]>
You will not be able to use the forum as a member until you activate your account. this procedure is necessary to prove the registration was not via a spambot.

Please Note: To help prevent registrations from spambots any account not activated within 24 hours will be deleted.]]>