You probably won't understand much about what is going on at the site, but I hope you will be able to appreciate the following aspects:

Searching
Using the Apache Lucene search engine, we are capable of searching through 30.000 articles within split seconds.

Newsletters
The MLMMJ mailing list manager makes it possible for us to send out more than 75.000 emails with the latest IT news - every day

NewsAlerts
A custom-built Java daemon notifies users of new articles with certain keywords

Keywords
Articles and sections are categorised through the use of keywords, making articles appear in a section if it shares keywords with the section - allowing for re-assigning keywords to sections and make on-the-fly adjustments to the contents of sections.

CBB Integration
Articles can be connected to one or more CBB (Stripped down a LOT) threads.

Article Relations
Articles can - naturally - be related to one another.

Image Resizing and Caching
A new image manager uploads, categorises and resizes images to be used on the frontpage and in articles.

Blocks in articles
Any block from any module can be put in any paragraph of any article, giving the author complete freedom in how his article looks.

Deadline
Unfortunately, we overstepped our deadline ... In mid-June, the goal of reaching launch by October 3rd was set.

As you can figure out, we have been delayed 2 whole days

Thank you everyone here for your encouragements that made me continue here.

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And yes - we will aim at making the new developments made during our work available to the XOOPS community.