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There’s been a lot going on with Famiva.com. We’ve moved to a robust new infrastructure that will help us grow beyond our 330K user base. We’ve also made tons of enhancements. Here’s a summary of what’s new and exciting:

• Brand new site creation process:

  Our new site creation process is dead simple! We call it “Instant Gratification at Zero Risk”. We no longer require your real email address to try us out. Simply name your site, create a temporary login, and your site is ready for use. Our new landing page is much simpler too.
  

• New site tour:

  We have a brand new quick feature tour. Learn about the key features and capabilities of your free Famiva site with our clean and simple guided tour.
  

• New front page:

  The new and simplified front page focuses on the most relevant content. Get updates across your entire extended family right on the front page. You can see comments, reminders, new content, and more, at a glance. You can get email digests of the updates as well. There are links for quickly creating new content, such as uploading new photos or writing a new story. There’s also a “getting started” guide that helps you get the most out of your Famiva site.
  

• Enhanced photo browser:

  The photo explorer has also been restructured to focus on content. There’s a new scroller that lets you navigate to next and previous photo. Our smart “who’s in photo” helps you quickly tag people in the photo. We still have our beautiful full-screen and 3d photo slideshows, in case you haven’t tried it out. Also, we now support Media RSS format for photos.

• Stories, events, family tree and more:

  There are many other enhancements across the sites. Stories, events, calendar, family tree, etc. have all been improved, with more to come.
  

We hope you like what we’ve done with Famiva. Our team is growing and there is much more to come, including several of your requested features.

Thanks!
- Famiva Team

Dear users,

We hope you’re enjoying the new Famiva.com. We’ve added a new feature that will allow you to search for members from anywhere on the site. On the header, you’ll see a new search box. Start typing the name of the person to jump right to their profile.

We think this feature is particularly useful when you’re looking for someone’s contact information on a large family site. We hope you’ll find it useful as well.

- Famiva Team

Some of you may have experienced a delay in receiving mail from our new Famiva.com server. This was due to pending network changes. This problem should now be resolved. Let us know if you experience problems verifying your email address, using “forgot password”, or inviting relatives.

- Famiva Team

We are live with the new Famiva! All data and content has been migrated successfully. It’s time for you to enjoy it, and for us to get some sleep.

Just go to http://famiva.com as usual. We hope you like it. This was a major upgrade so it may have some rough edges. Let us know about any problems you encounter by leaving a comment here.

Thank you for your patience and cooperation.

- Famiva Team

The pre-upgrade tasks are going well. We have kept the live site up and running through the deployment window (2-6AM EST). It will remain up for the most part of the day, and will only be taken down during actual migration. The migration will only last a few minutes.

So enjoy your Famiva site as we setup the new one. Expect the switch over to occur later today.

- Famiva Team