Following Weep's suggestion, know that ordering a unit any order via trigger will interrupt/wipe its current orders, which can prove to be a liability when trying to make the AI behavior more convenient.
Alternatively, if you only need to turn off auto-cast then you can remove and re-add the ability. This will turn off auto-casting without interrupting any orders.
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"