It is my aspiration to seek out potential remedies to these issues, which is not a simple matter, first and foremost. Asking various contributors to be proactive about the process is not a cherished task, and understandably would be tedious unless you were perhaps a front man for this department (sounds like a job for a promotions guy!).

At its core, the easily identified culprit can be the splintered platforms that our community tends to operate between, as Slack and Discord are effective boats in their own right, but these tend to be sheltered away from others in favor of a private setting, which by all accords is fine, but it is hard to get any information when everything is kept under shelter. There is a lack of a centralized medium that can link these currently, or at least an effective one, because while the forums is solid ground, it is also easily swamped and crammed with many, many other topics that can make it easy to skim over important updates. Github is a platform that might be the effective gateway for certain changes to be approved/rejected, however this is a stretch for the typical user who may not have any place to be on such a platform unless he were a developer and who understands the UI and functions, and so it only further divides concentrated information that, unfortunately, is not effectively in the loop with the rest of the community. The “What's New” tab on the client does the best of these to present certain topics front and center, but even that is scarcely occupied, and bare minimum for what can be called the front page.

For this problem, it might be tricky, but at the very least, this occupies a greater circle for what can help for our community, as having a cleaner, centralized, and updated hub, with those who can appropriately convey information is the general solution that I am aiming for. This goes hand-in-hand with tournaments, development, casts, technical help, map and mods, and so much more. The idea is to generate the core of FAF communications through a portal that can be linked to the various platforms at our disposal, while encouraging the enlisting of spokesmen to dedicate their efforts to notifying key interests, for the respective domains they entail. We clearly possess councilmen with dedicated roles serving toward the interests of expanding various important aspects for the FAF community, and to craft this portal would ideally attract users who would be interested in said topics to allow them to coordinate and promote their work in an effective manner.

We currently have multiple platforms, and it permits to the access to various tools and workspaces, but that in turn makes for more ground to cover, and while it would be easy to copy and paste the same messages, and carry this out like a pigeon courier to every social media outlet, this is exhaustive busywork. When conjoined with others who may be out of the network and have to individually carry their own messages, or have to assign this to a designated person, this ends up becoming a mess that inherently leads to this kind of disorganized platform that does not allocate for everyone's best interests, which is exactly the state that FAF communications is in now.

This solution for an FAF portal is unfortunately one that is idealist, and unfortunately, while I may possess the means to speak and deliver the ideas front and center, I do not possess the skill to build such a concept as a tangible entity. I would like to gather as much as I can in resources into something I can piece together and design, however, it is an effort that I cannot accomplish alone, which is why if you have read this far, I must iterate that I am absolutely open to cooperating and working with others who can help in this promotions field. Having others to assist in the tasks is appreciated and helpful already, but it should not be understated that this is a community effort, and while I intend to run for the seat of promotions, the work and accomplishments come from a unified position, and one that we are all capable of succeeding with if we collaborate!