The home page has morphed over the years primarily during downtime between U2 tours. We will be creating the type of U2 only home page on u2.interference.com which will be our primary U2 portal for Interference. I'll call this the U2 portal. We are putting together a team right now to help get this going and then will look here to the membership for people willing to volunteer to help write articles, blogs entries, etc about U2. When this is done the forums will no longer be on forums.interference.com but they will be on u2.interference.com along with the new portal with only U2 content. We will need to write our own Bios on the band members and all the other people associated with U2 and then connect these pages to discussions here on the forums using our new taggings system. So this is all a work in progress but I know it's going to be a hit when it's finished and get us back into the Top 10 on Google for the search "U2". Having U2 as the subdomain will help the search engines and the U2 portal will increase our relevancy and we will rank higher.
I consider this the roots of Interference but over time it will probably be called the U2 Channel. My goal is to have other channels which I have outlined here in brief before. We will start by creating logical extension channels spawned from philosophies of the band and other correlated topics. I hope the second channel will be an area that I call Social Responsibility which comes from Bono's plight to help bring awareness to issues like poverty, AIDs and Malaria but does not stop there. It's more about being a good member of a global community, helping locally and global on issues that impact our world. They include topics on charities and how to give locally and globally but also cover topics such as living a more sustainable lifestyle (being green, helping out, lowering your impact on the earth while increasing your impact on society).
After the Social Responsibility channel is in place (once again leveraging volunteers from our community to help foster this resource) we will look at a more general music section of the site. This is correlated to U2 through the fact we all like music and probably many of us like the same bands, etc. I know Bono and the boys love various other bands and it's just a common thing we have here.
Each section is going to have a portal, like u2.interference.com where articles, discussions, photos, etc from that section will be featured. Each section will also have a forum for topics on those areas. These other forums will be separate forums but tied to the same user database. I don't expect Sicy and our other Mods here to want to help manage these other forums but if they do, then great. If not, the only thing they will share is the member data (one login).
Please remember this is all still a work in progress. The primary focus will be to create the U2.interference.com portal and dial in this section of the site. When that is done we will move to the social responsibility section. When that is done we will see how things are going and what seem logical to do next. So please be patient with us as we work through these phases of the site.
Also, please take some time to read the new articles the content team has posted on the portal. I heard most everyone skips that section and comes strait to the forums. They have written some great stuff lately on lots of topics related to music and concerts. It's always nice to keep expanding our horizons with all the great music out there.
"Music can change the world because it can change people." - Bono