The new Porting Team v3 System is full of some little gimmicks that can make this an overall nicer place.
You can interact with people easier / rate or like things that you've found helpful (or the opposite) / follow topics & ports to help you find them later faster.
You can:

Rate Articles & Ports & Tutorials (Front Page, Port Database, Tutorials)
Rating Articles, Ports and Tutorials helps others to see how useful a Article was to you.
(click the spoiler to see some examples)

Like Comments (everywhere)
Liking Comments lets the Poster know if you've helped him. Every User can collect 'Likes' and it will add up to their general Reputation.
(click the spoiler to see some examples)

Add some Friends (User Profiles)
Adding Friends helps you keep track of other Member's status updates and a quick way of accessing their Posts & Ports
(click the spoiler to see some examples)

Following Ports, Forums, Posts & Tutorials (everywhere)
You can follow various Stuff here in the Forums, simply for the sake of finding your favorite things better.
(click the spoiler to see some examples)

Twitter-like Status Updates (includes Forum updates and actual Twitter & Facebook updates)
Status Updates can show your Friends what you are currently up to.
Also Status updates from Twitter & Facebook are automatically fetched and displayed there as well.
(click the spoiler to see some examples)
You can view what your Friends are up to by clicking this link:
Friends Status Updates
or what all other Members are up to by clicking this link:
Member Status Updates
You can interact with people easier / rate or like things that you've found helpful (or the opposite) / follow topics & ports to help you find them later faster.
You can:

Rate Articles & Ports & Tutorials (Front Page, Port Database, Tutorials)
Rating Articles, Ports and Tutorials helps others to see how useful a Article was to you.
(click the spoiler to see some examples)
Spoiler

Like Comments (everywhere)
Liking Comments lets the Poster know if you've helped him. Every User can collect 'Likes' and it will add up to their general Reputation.
(click the spoiler to see some examples)
Spoiler

Add some Friends (User Profiles)
Adding Friends helps you keep track of other Member's status updates and a quick way of accessing their Posts & Ports
(click the spoiler to see some examples)
Spoiler

Following Ports, Forums, Posts & Tutorials (everywhere)
You can follow various Stuff here in the Forums, simply for the sake of finding your favorite things better.
(click the spoiler to see some examples)
Spoiler

Twitter-like Status Updates (includes Forum updates and actual Twitter & Facebook updates)
Status Updates can show your Friends what you are currently up to.
Also Status updates from Twitter & Facebook are automatically fetched and displayed there as well.
(click the spoiler to see some examples)
Spoiler
You can view what your Friends are up to by clicking this link:
Friends Status Updates
or what all other Members are up to by clicking this link:
Member Status Updates




























