of course we need to gently introduce stuff, but this does not mean removing features.

this simply controls how features are presented.

ya3ni news feeds masalan, these are links in the side bar, their text explains what each link does, and they could be themed to say in a very clear manner Latest Linux News

users who just want the forum will not be confused by them, they don't get in the way.

same for polls, we already had polls in the forum, only difference will be to have a poll on the home page, which many sites do, again it does not get in the way.

the wiki is an old feature not a new one, the trick is to make sure not to confuse people with it. we can disable comments on the wiki to make sure no one mistakes them for a place for general support questions. we can give it a small no prominant link that just says wiki, a meaningless word to most members.

wa hakaza.

so I say implement all the features but don't push them.

one thing we can do is put a very prominant link to the forum in the home page, not just among the normal navigational links, but something inside a short paragraph saying "for help in using linux go to the forum" or something like that.

blogs are for senior users only anyway.

and no we don't have to introduce the dopcumentation the moment we launch the feature either, we launch first, document later, then explain it, promote it and the final step would be to push it.