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I pushed out a lot of changes today:
Portals are now moved to subdomains. Community, Account, etc, are accessible across any subdomain.
Levels no longer offer perks (except it's still a requirement to be level 2 for private messages). We will be adding in a couple things that change based on level, but not real features.
There is now a virtual shop, which relies on the virtual gold currency. Gold is gained whenever XP is gained. This shop sells the features which were attainable via a level before.
The old Dashboard link has been replaced with Account. This is now a dropdown menu due to the way navigation has changed.
XP requirements have changed. It is now much harder to gain levels, and future contests will require much more XP per-ticket.
I pushed out a lot of changes today: