"I think I read somewhere that they have yet to add these features, but are coming by the time the full version is available - mid to late summer. I'm also wondering if there will be a column where ads can be added to the right or left of all…"

"Hello Ning?   If you managed to fix this in this forum perhaps you could tell me how to in mine?"

"Hello Ning?   Any plans for a forum poll feature?"

"It's what I read when researching this. any code that's not put in using included features like the video embed code box will be removed. That is not unusual in forums. What is unusual is that there isn't a poll feature included."

"Thanks for your reply Tyler but from what I've read Ning removes all code from the forum posts so no such solution will work."

"well... in the past three days I've tried it perhaps twelve times and it has never worked.  "

"me too.   Also - the twitter button doesn't work either. It shows a popup saying there was a problem.   I've had to set up my Facebook to post to twitter and to post to facebook manually. What's up with these social sharing…"

"YES! thank you :) the fixed square proportions was the key. I did it with GIMP btw.   "

"The picture needs to be as close to a square as possible, because what it's doing is finding the largest possible square area it can, and cropping the rest. I'm not sure what size ning resizes the pictures to, but I have not noticed any…"

"Actually I made a mistake: the Like button works fine. it is the facebook link in the share menu that doesn't work (layer swirl).   I've tested in Chrome and Safari (mac)"

"I discovered the exact same problem.   The facebook button opens this layer and just whirls. However, the facebook link under the Share menu works just fine. (but people don't use the share menu... they just want immediate access to…"

"exactly. this is a big problem."

"I have the same issue, mine is with the expanded view where you show five topics in each category. Nobody ever goes onto page 2."