After a lot of hard work, we are very happy to announce the launch of our new site! As you can see, the wait is well worth it. A huge thanks goes out to Matt Miller and Tim Peluso for making this great site possible. We couldn’t have done it without them.

To all new visitors: make sure to register on the Blackout forums and check out our member pages.  Also, be sure to check back often, we have lots of great stuff on the way. Keep in mind that in order to keep our forums clean we have to activate your account, so you won’t be able to log in immediately. Thanks to everyone for visiting and please help us spread the word!

If you can see this, that means that the first installation of the new Blackout website is underway! Yes, I’m an idiot and I’ve decided to build this thing while it’s live. The main reason being that we’re not generating a lot of traffic right now, anyway, and I’d like to keep some of the paint slingers that do visit here up to speed.  Over the next few weeks, you’ll probably see things break a lot, so don’t sweat it.

Things I’m going to be working on over the next few weeks, in order of priority:

• Comments
• Archives
• Categories
• Events

I really want to tackle member profiles, but can’t really get to that until we have a majority of the pictures taken. Anyway, I’d like to ask that you all keep checking back as we’d all like some feedback on the new web presence of Blackout.