I love the portal, it has made things so much easier so a massive thank you to everyone involved in creating it and implementing it. I don't know why it was changed, but hitting the player portal no longer goes to your player right away which I find somewhat odd. I think most people will use it to update and check their players, so the elimination of that small additional step would be nice, but it's nothing crazy. I assume it's probably more difficult than I'm making it seem also.