Announcements

• Points, levels and card tiers — What earns points, how levels go up, and how your Gold, Silver or Bronze card is decided from your recent activity.
• All 40 badges and how to earn them — Every badge on GONOM, what it takes to earn it, and which ones are the hardest to get.
• New character avatars — Every member now has a game-style character: knights, pilots, wizards, chefs and 20 more, drawn in bright colors.
• Cleaner category pages — Slimmer top area, your account in one small box, a HOT ticker, 10 news posts and 22 Talk lines per page.
• A friendlier sign-up page — Pick your character, preview how you will appear, and see what you get on day one, all on one page.
• Clean web addresses — Every page now has a plain address like /news/politics or /post/123-title, so links are easy to share and find.
• Login Bonus Week — Log in once a day from Oct 26 to Oct 30 and get +100 pts each day — up to +500 pts.
• Halloween Quiz Night — Every right answer on a news quiz gives +20 pts instead of +10 on Oct 31 (UTC).
• GONOM meta is open for testing — Members, posts and comments here are generated test data. Everything will be reset before launch.
• Talk opens in all 10 categories — Every category now has its own Talk board with Opinion, Question, Info and Light tags.
• Scheduled maintenance — GONOM was read-only for about 30 minutes while we moved to a faster database.