Come on people, keep hitting the thread with new ideas. We can do better than this. We already have the community part (the forum), and it can be an extremely fundamental element to the portal. E.g., every new "file" posted in the download section could actually be managed directly from the board in a specific forum section, where only a specific user group can post new files, and anyone can reply to the thread, hence adding commends for the download. It would work a lot like the news posting, where a news poster submits a new thread to the Announcements' forum, and it shows up as a news tidbit on the portal.

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