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Hi! This is sort of a tangent off of the "bring back the Recent Posts sidebar" thread--I think there are some subforums that are often pretty hard to run conversations in because they're, well, dead, and that's a shame, because some of those subforums (like the TV Shows subforum, the Arts & Crafts subforum) actually contain really high-quality content that would fit perfectly fine in other subforums (like Off-Topic, or Gamer Life General Discussion).
It would be really cool, as a long-term modification, if we could work out a way so that those browsing certain subforums could see recent posts in the "subforum family". Like, if I'm browsing one of Off-Topic/Arts & Crafts/Television, I see new posts in the other two.
Maybe we could even be given a way to make a "playlist" of our favorite subforums. Like, being able to Focus only specific subforums, while leaving others Defocused, would be amazing. I don't want to look at all the endless Paizo product subforums, but I would love to be able to idly browse and see what's going on in, like, some of the Homebrew subforums, the old Age of Worms subforum, etc.
In general, using Arts & Crafts as an example, just merging it with Off-Topic could be messy--but nowadays, it's a very quiet subforum, and getting both OTD and A&C threads in my sidebar wouldn't bother me one bit.
So, a summary:
It'd be cool if certain especially quiet subforums were lumped together, so we'd get to see Recent Posts made in one while we were reading a thread in another.
Alternatively, it'd be cool if we could someday get the ability to Focus or Defocus certain subforums.
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(Also, yes, this is very low-priority, and I also want to say that I'm only asking because the Focus feature is amazing and I adore it and it's made the forums usable for me. I just feel bad for the small subforums, which are full of cool content but get swallowed up by the masses at this point! I want to see people's Arts & Crafts! I want to see people's fanfic!)