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I noticed the new community portal at joomla.org this weekend.

I would love to know what the value of this site is. I was not impressed.

All this site appears to be is a listing of links and a Feedbuner RSS feed portal for other sites to feed from. All this portal does is break up the former news items into separate categories. But did anyone notice that they took away the ability for the COMMUNITY to submit news items?
There is no REAL news section any longer.

Looks to me like the folks at joomla.org took the COMMUNITY out of the wrongly named community portal. I find this very strange and disturbing. Maybe former news section was too much maintenance. but wouldn't it be nice to hear something about this first?

This site appears to be only a way to self promote their own hosted JoomlaDay events, internal team recruitment, and RSS feed postings to better their site rankings.

Someone please tell me I'm wrong. But I highly doubt it.

I use to visit the news site on a daily basis.
Ever since they replaced this with the community portal site I have zero desire to view it.

The community portal does not provide the same information the news portal provided.

I do not mind the community portal, but I do miss the news portal.

There is actually a great article on this topic here.
http://blog.joomlatools.org/2008/07/joomlaorg-lost-sites.html

They have also put up a petition to have the "Lost Sites" put back up.

Make sure that you vote to have these valuable websites reinstated on joomla.org.

Thanks Mike. Yes, we should all get in and vote.