I've added a feature to the website.  Whenever a news item is posted, a link to a forum thread will be created automatically.  As you can see at the end of this news item, the link will also indicate how many posts are in that thread.  As the campaign start approaches, this automatic functionality will make my life much easier.  That was the whole point of the site overhaul in the first place - while I initially created the site because I thought (correctly so, it turned out) that it would help give us some cohesiveness and focus, I needed something more automated than the old site, so that I could spend more time building.  Now that the back end of the site seems to be running smoothly, this should be the case.  {mos_fb_discuss:14}