Do you know anything about the trigger editor? If you do, the thing you want is under Visibilty, and it's called disable black mask. If not, read on.
First you need to open the trigger editor. To do this, press F4 or press module and then trigger editor. When you've opened this, you should a trigger called Map Initialization. What you need to do now is to press Ctrl and R at the same time. A window should pop up, with 2 drop down menus saying All and Do Nothing. Open the top menu and find ''Visibility''. The other menu should now say ''Enable fog of war''. Open it and find ''Disable Black Mask'' When you selected this, press enter. Now, press ctrl and R again, go to visibility once again, but this time select ''Disable fog of war'' instead. Then save and test your map.
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...