indeed they are.
Lately, the spotlighted maps look like they have been randomly picked.
There is really nothing special about this map. Except for the "mazing" which takes it to the "extreme".
Since you are from this community, contact SD_Ryoko about it.
You will present your map to him and he will with other people decide if it is worthy.
I suggest submitting your map to our map vault and then if it is truely worthy, Ryoko will surely spot it and submit it.
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...