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Hi Nick!

Now, I realise you haven't had a huge amount of time to work on improving the forums recently, we can understand that, however many of us on the team feel that we need to have some major improvements added to the site.

Firstly, the site's look. I and a few others have come up with a few ideas and concepts of how we can make the main site and also the forum look both better, and also more Portal /Portal 2 themed. As far as my understanding of how the Forum php and HTML works, this shouldn't really be that hard of a thing to change, and as you'll probably know, presentation is what draws people in. You've probably seen many maps come in on the main site that look bad, which means that people will barely play them as it doesn't look the part, and this will happen no matter how good the puzzle is. While I'm not saying the current design is necessarily bad, it could do with some sprucing up.

Secondly, the maps section itself needs to be updated to accommodate both Portal 1 and

Portal 2 maps. We have received loads of threads in the site feedback asking for this change, and while I know this is not an easy task to start re-arranging the database, it's something a whole lot of people want. Also, I go back to the topic which I have brought up twice before, we need more sections on the main site, namely videos or artwork by users. This will give a whole new area to work on, and will also give us something that Thinking with portals hasn't.

Next, contests. These aren't hard to set up, and with the increased traffic I'm sure that they could be fuelled by all the new members money-wise. As for submissions, there should be a whole lot more because of this increase, rather than just the circle of moderators and older users. It will also boost interest in the site, and stop it from declining in popularity like it will within a few months like last time.

Now, I know this may be a lot to ask for, but I and other long time members of the team and site believe that

this site can become the best Portal/Portal 2 site around, if we put effort into it and work on it, we can make it happen.

Regards

The mAL team.

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