Ye' old general discussion board. Basically, for everything that isn't covered elsewhere. Come here to shoot the breeze, shoot your mouth off, or whatever suits your fancy. This forum is not for asking programming related questions.
i think if its going to be a problem to keep it, toss it. the forum index has everything the portal does but in a much easier to navigate layout. plus the portal poll always asks me to vote on the same thing even though i voted on it. it should not be there if i voted, annoying. other than that there simply is not really anything there that you can not find on the index. my $325652.00
I type in forums.devnetwork.net/index.php . Never use the portal. I don't like the layout. It pushes the stuff I want (the forum listing) into the margins, and keeps the announcements (which I never read ) blocking the entire body. Additionally, there is no indication on the portal page which forums have new mesages and which don't. I don't like portals at all actually, so I browse to the forums straight away.
I use the portal. 90% of the time I jump right to "New Posts" but I like having the easy options of going elsewhere (i.e. unanswered posts, read the news, check the current poll).