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1. Pages load faster because you are only downloading the content each time rather than the entire page with graphics and other external files.

Keeping track of your friends can be hard, especially if you have hundreds of friends. The friends feed shows a list of the latest additions your friends have made to the site this lets you stay up to date with all of the latest events, photos, videos, blogs and songs your friends have been adding.

Part of the UK Astronomers philosophy is discovery, finding new groups to enjoy as well as new friends with common interests and new events to attend. On most pages you will see a "Recommend Similar" button; this will produce a selection of items, similar to the page you are currently on that you may also like.

This system uses a neural network to take into account other items you like and what other people like.

You can control who has access to everything you put on the UK Astronomers website. There are 4 different levels of access, public: everyone can access it, private: only you can access it, members: only friends you mark as being members can access it, ideal for group member information and VIP where only friends you have marked as VIP can access it. This is ideal for pre-releasing event information or photos/videos to your closest friends first.

Tagging is used throughout the UK Astronomers website, users can tag each other content which makes it much easier to search and browse content by keywords. Clicking on a tag will show you other items that have been tagged with this keyword.

Built in statistics lets you see how popular your content is by unique visitors and returning visitors. This can give an indication of what your friends like most.

Charts show the most popular content on the site in the past 24 hour, providing you with an easy way to look at the best material on the site.

Publish your upcoming events, your friends will get notified through their friend feeds and also told through their weekly event reminder emails. Other can also see your event listings when searching for events in their local area.

When you list a event you can also attach a event poster or flyer as well as venue information so people can get there!

You can also use the access system to only tell your VIP friends about secret events!

Users can sign up to your mailing list, you can then send people information directly to their emails straight from the UK Astronomers website.

As a user, you can control the mailing lists you are subscribed to all from one page. It also means your email address remains hidden unless you choose to make it public.

You retain full copyright control of all content you upload to the website. We will never use your content for any reason without your permission and you have the ability to remove all data you’ve added to the website at anytime.

Your content belongs to you so we aim to make all data you add to the UK Astronomers website freely accessible via APIs. This means you will be able to take data from the UK Astronomers website and embed it in your own websites using RSS feeds.

UK Astronomers provides you simple, copy and paste code that allows you to embed your photos and videos in other websites and forums. This makes it much easier for you to share your content with others as well as publicise yourselves.

Your friends can easily embed widgets into their own web pages that show your upcoming events, latest photos, and blog entries. You can also embed these images in forum signatures to show your latest photos for example.

For examples, heres UK Astronomers's Blog Widget:

Get sent automatic event reminder emails once a week listing all upcoming events you may be interested in based on your location or your favourite groups.