I see. Sorry. OK. I have been looking through the various forum upgrade threads. The collapsing boards is an issue with the specific skin that we have used here. Collapsable boards is a standard feature of this forum, but the current skin doesnt feature it. So I am chatting to the skin creator and others in the know for a quick fix on this. There are a couple of other things such as making the 'black on red' text more readable and so on, and these will be dealt with shortly.
Future plans of the site and boards specifically is something that will need consideration. When Lex and I initially chatted about this idea, we agreed that we just needed the forums up to serve as a rallying point for SG players. Once this was done (is almost completed now) then we could look at expansion ideas and so on. Personally, I would be very happy to have each game have a 'resources section', and other ideas have been thrown around, which I wont go into just yet.
As for the 'behind the scenes' stuff, then we dont actually have any further information. My philosophy is that there are two ways of looking at this. You could say that the original material was removed, the games abandoned and cut down to only their essential minimal parts. Or, you could say that GW really doesnt gain much by allowing us to get together here, and certainly dont need to be so accomodating and supportive to what we want with their games.
Currently, I have been given permission to make the old Fanatic Online material available again. This was the specific request made by me, and was agreed by SG at the time. Nothing beyond this material was covered by this. I am not saying that we cant make more material available, but that I am unwilling to 'push' the developing relationship between this site and GW/SG by going beyond this agreement without express permission.
Finally, as with the question of 'official status' this is still something that (I think) the community should look at. Take your favourite game, and discuss it here. SG games have a mold-breaking history (within GW) of being largely in the hands of the community of players. Sure, having the material available is a first step, but the guys here for the games are really the best people to discuss 'official rules' with and set out a list if available.
As for what is planned here.... What would you like to see? At this stage, some ideas and suggestions may be a good idea. What would you like from a site like this? And, critically, do we have volunteers to get involved and organised. The people behind this place are not GW. But, if something was agreed and declared official, I would guess that the default view would be that this status would remain.
All the best.
