Originally Posted by Village Genius I think the following might be worth consideration: -Merge all the programming forums, they cover similar topics and see very little activity on their own -Merge the graphics design forum with exception of The Gallery Showcase and Designers Portfolio's (is that proper grammar for the name?)

VG, there are still a number of forums that can easily be merged, including the programming forum.

Originally Posted by Salathe If there was a way to keep the existing forums (or some easy way of filtering), for those who might want to browse only the area(s) they're familiar with yet also present everything within a category in a single place (by default, to give the impression of activity), that would be awesome.

Yes, "tagging" was my initial idea, but unfortunately, in my experience, it does not work on forums - people are too lazy to mark threads appropriately. I will look for a special hack that would force users to specify the sub-category when creating a thread - and that would tag the thread next to its "title" (similar to Gmail labels), if at all possible.