This has been talked about before, but for many reasons this has not been possible. ESPECIALLY if it were to be based on rep, would throw the system outta whack. Why? Because in reality reputation is not more than a bunch of numbers added together. Thats all it is. That's how SM faltered, it was based on rep.
So if everyone got a sif based on rep, people would work hard to get a proze they don't deserve.
Though I am no admin, nor a high ranking member here at TheHelper, so I can only say what I think. Sigs should be kept as they are, IMO, and for no reason really should that change, again, IMO.
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...