We have two news systems that provide two different services.

The news reader provides us with information and an opportunity to garner a
quick opinion. These services really needs to be integrated into the game
system. Finding out that your favorite mob has been rape protted, or a spell
tuned shouldn't require a trip to the website. Neither should saying 'hey,
mountaineering sucks balls change it!'. These are one time read types of
posts, occasionally you might go back to one, but mainly you want to know the
information while you are playing.

The forums on the other hand give us the place to ask questions, browse for
answers, and store information that is not part of help files but players
need. This sort of information does not sit well in-game, as it needs to be
searchable.



So my opinion is keep the 2 readers (perhaps have them accessed via the same
page, with web only content listed), and fix the existing news reader
functionality on the web (unread posts not highlighted within a group, the
next unread post button not working, reply to a post not working, see if page
load time can be decreased, etc.).</