Jim,
Is it true you’re working on a whole new interface and if so do you have an estimated time until a public beta?
It is true, but it’s slow going and I do not have an ETA or a beta yet. It’s a conservative social networking site. But it’s a totally separate site on a separate URL on a different ISP. It will be available to registered FReepers in good standing ONLY but will be in addition to FR, not part of it. FR will remain the same. It’s planned to have networking accounts similar to facebook where the user can choose who has access to his page and which pages or groups he may wish to join. There will also be a way for users or groups of users to maintain their own collaborative sites on the network including public and or private forums. They’ll be able to administrate their own sites and control access to them. As it’s on a server of its own on a different provider, it’ll also serve as a backup site for FR.