Hello all,

We recently experimented with adding threaded comments to the rumor mill in an attempt to facilitate multiple strands of conversation within a rumor.

Apologies to all of our users for any inconvenience caused by our malfunctioning spam filter over the weekend. We're back working and looking forward to your comments and rumors!

Apologies again,

The Biofind Team

We welcome feedback and comment on the Biofind website. Please post your feedback here so that we can easily respond where appropriate.

A happy new year to all of our community members. Thank you for your continued support throughout 2008 whilst we moved the site to a new platform.

This week we have been keeping a tight reign on the quality of posts and the Biotech Rumor Mill now appears to be delivering good discussion and content.
We will edit out posts that are deemed off topic, rude or defamatory or contain profanities.

Please keep new threads and posts related to the Biotech industry.

Any other information about Biofind or the running of the Mill we would be happy to deal with via email (info@biofind.com).

This week we have been able to make some fixes to the site and open up the site to completely anonymous postings again. The traffic appears to be returning.
We have also been adding more features for registered users. For those of you who have already registered(more than 500 to date), you will see we have added a number of useful features such as an indicator of the new posts which you not have read yet.

Greetings all,
First off, a thank you for your valued feedback. We've received many comments about the new site, both positive and critical, and we've just implemented our first round of changes.
Less Intrusive Advertising
Biofind is supported by advertising; however the site did suffer a bug whereby threads with only a few comments received excessive amount of ads, making following and tracking discussion difficult. We have now fixed this bug, and the number of adverts displayed within a thread of discussion is now correctly linked to the number of comments.
Presentation of Threads
We have also focussed upon simplifying the visual display of threads. Increasing the body content size, removing the repetitive thread titles and making user actions clearer have resulted in a rumors which are far easier to read and follow. This is in addition to changes in presentation across the rest of the site.
Jobs
We have partnered with RealMatch to provide relevant and targeted job vacancies across the Biotech industry. Our jobs channel is now open and free for all users to use.

Welcome to the third iteration of Biofind!

With the new look website we have moved platforms from our own in-house solution. Rebuilding Biofind has allowed us add new features to the website, including a completely revamped and refitted Rumor Mill.

Along with a new look, the new website involves some revised posting requirements.

Firstly, it is still possible to post rumors and comments without a user account.

We understand that in the past malicious posters have ruined genuine discussing, hiding behind a veil of anonymity. Therefore, when posting a new rumor, registered users can opt to disallow anonymous replies.

As part of our redevelopment plans, we have decided to create a development blog for Biofind. The blog should allow us to communicate our plans for the future of Biofind, as well as giving the community a public means of talking with us about the site. First of all some news from the Biofind office: