When the arbitrary (certainly not in line with vox populi) and very unreasonable decision was taken to merge more subforums into a smaller number - I was among the "protesting" ones.
I was right. The forum should be more divided and "structured", not like "all things to one bag" as it is now.
Nothing in this world is perfect. But the old forum structure, with more partitions, was SURELY better than the current one.
Ship Nostalgia?... well above 40 forum partitions
Captain's Voyage?... some 10 topical partitions
whether 40, 20 or 10 - everything is much better than current 4 topical ones here (I do not count "technical" forum itself related forum).
great majority of forums ale well divided and structured. because it works. because it is a better solution.