Hi everyone,

I am late to the topic but here is a little intro. Firstly I have two profiles here and the other is Molosser Dogs

I am a retired US Navy Lieutenant Commander who spent a lot of time Navy ships and traveled the world a couple times.  Have been on all (yes) the continents. It would be easier to name countries that I have not visited than the ones visited, thanks to Uncle Sam.  So after almost 27 years I retired and have been using the knowledge and experience of global operational logistics, procurement, contracts, materials management, process improvement and leadership to do things in Oil & Gas and Construction industry. I just returned from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and will start a new position with a wonderful company in San Antonio in January.

I am a big fan of dogs and especially the molossoid breeds.  These are typically the big scary dogs that you may see guarding livestock or protecting property. We have owned Caucasian Ovcharkas since 1998 when we lived in Itri, Italy and needed dogs to protect our home and property from thieves and brigands.

Since 1998, I have been running websites for this breed and the Molossers. The mainstay is molosserdogs.com. I have used phpbb, SMF, phpNuke, e107, Dolphin and now UNA. On e107 we had 17,000 active members and then the big social networks came and killed all activity. :(

If you have dogs - pop over to molosserdogs.com and join us. - shameless plug here.

Anyhow, because I am still vested in the dog community - I keep the site going now using UNA.

UNA has some shortcomings in the areas of user engagement, content presentation, onsite notification, the use of screen space (too much white space) and other usability issues but hopefully the devs are aware and a future version will round out all the rough edges.

Cheers All.

Gary