The old Portal first had links to other communities on the main page.
Then Huor developed a Community Bar for SWAT in response to TSPs bar which had serious security problems.
Well that bar still exist and id like to transfer it to the new Portal... BUT
Id like to make some improvements:
-> a signup form here at SWAT so every community which want to be hosted just has to fill in that form (instead of getting applied just like TSP coz that is ineffective)
-> a trackback feature so that if a community decides to join that "network" and registeres here only has to put the code for the bar on their own site to get their submited link displayed on the bar (so actually you register, then you put the code into your site, then the SWAT Portal automatically checks if that code does exist on the community and if that is the case the link to that community is automatically getting added to the community network; if the code is missing then no link will be added)
ERGO: a easy, fast and unbureaucratic feature that has many advantages over ALL existing forms of site linking
It for sure is not an easy task to get this running but in my eyes worth the efforts.