Since the Hula girl is still on the answer pages she is not gone completely. She does give it a cute look. When they did the last update the Hula girl went away and instead we now have a sampling of the featured pages of Mahalo.
I do like the new front page. I think it looks great.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.