It's meant to be playable terrain, not just terrain so what do you expect? The project was dropped too. How about you try starting a map that resembles WoW's northrend map.
In a very fun way I recommend playing version 1.11 not 1.12. The idea is kinda like chess... Each race has special buildings that help it to own the others... Castle fight is like melee, but automatic, and the actuall units you have spawned are a lot more important, not how you control them.
I am working on getting access to the old news portal under a different URL for those that would rather use that for news before we get a different news view.
It is OK though for the main page to open up on the forum in the view it was before. As long as the portal has its own URL so it can be viewed that way I do want to try it as a regular forum view for a while
I switched it to a "Standard" article forum. This will show the thread list like normal, but the threads themselves will have the first post set up above the rest of the "comments"