I reported your first post. Hope that'll get a mod in soon. As for your problem, there're plenty of tutorials out there. I'm betting you didn't even search before posting. Am I right?
It might be connectivity issue, if you, like me, live in somewhere far away from any of the major Gateways (i live in RSA), then you should rather try hosting from a local server.
If you can't host, it's either:
1. a port forwarding problem
2. a firewall problem
I've you've "done" both of them and it's still not working, you've done it incorrectly. There are a few threads here that will help you get it done correctly.
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...