I believe Seth said this when I asked him, and I will rely what he said and combined with what I think now:
Well, basically, with TheHelper's popularity, I believe it is now a self-supporting site. I am not sure of this, but it probably is. IF there are some extra costs involved now and then, like forum maitanence, TheHelper may actually pay a bit of his own money into it, just like many people invest a little bit of their money into many sites they own.
Though, thats just based on the fact their is no donation button. If there was a donate button, I would do it in a heartbeat. I love TheHelper, even though I am not posting here as much as I used to, and would donate money I have to the website I love so much.
Just a quick thought that came to mind. Thanks Sq for mentioning it, I would defiantly like to know TheHelper's thought on this and I am sure many others would too.
EDIT: Two people beat me to posting Well, no point in deleting a post.
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"
I would like to see it again like Ghan had it the first time with pagination though - without the pagination that view will not work but with pagination it just might...