This forum will support different categories - right now there is only one, with the "General" heading, but I can add others as you describe.

I kind of wanted to wait for a little while before making separate categories. It was just a little bit too hard for me to guess what the categories should be before I see more of the traffic.

I like your suggestion of categories though, those do sound like some good choices.

This forum is based off of a board called "Beehive Forum", you can get an idea of how it will scale up by looking over at http://www.tehforum.co.uk/forum/, there you can see the multiple categories on the left, and one of them has 9000 threads in it. I've changed it to slice out a bunch of stuff to try and make it a little more barebones and easier to use.

> P.S. Use firefox to browse forums, the "Open in new tab" feature makes browsing so much easier.

Yeah, that's what I do when I browse phpBB forums, but I just don't really like it, the topic list on the left and current thread on the right makes browsing between different threads to be just a single click...

I think I'm going to keep with this forum at least for a while and see how it goes...

Let me know if there are any very specific phpBB features that you'd like to see, it is possible that they might be among the stuff that I sliced out when streamlining this forum, and I could bring them back at some point.

- Michael