Honestly, it is entirely up to you. If you are happy with the way that your system works, then there is no reason to change it. The comments are seperate from these boards at this point, but do allow threaded discussion for each blog entry. Essentially, a blog post becomes the first post of a new thread, just in the blog section of the main site.
My suggestion for ToEG in particular - and it is only a suggestion - is that each member creates their own blog of their progress. This can be anywhere, and you can continue to use your current blog. People then add a link to their blog in their signature (increasing general visibility). We then simply have a single ToEG2011 thread which replaces the current ToEG board entirely. Progress is discussed in the blog, and a post is made in the thread when a blog post is published, with the link available in the sigs. You then have one place to post content (a blog) and a single thread which you can set up to let you know when there has been an update, with sig links right in each post.
However, I am open to suggestions, and if you guys want anything in particular for this, or want to run it a specific way, please do let me know.
As an aside, one of the goals of many of these changes is actually to make the front page of the site the first call for visitors. In the past, people have entirely ignored the front page and jsut come directly to the forums, and I cant blame them as there was no reason not to do this. However, very soon now the front page will allow you to log in right away from there, as well as publish the five most recent forum posts (already available), the five most recent blog posts (working on this right now), wargaming news with links and discussions and so on. The aim is to encourage people to bookmark the front page, and then navigate to the other sections, and so blogs should get exposure that way.
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