it's been a while and I gave it some time. But I find that I spend less and less time here. Why? because it's just to hard to find the content I actually am interested in.

without sub-forums, I'm forced to scroll past all the weldment questions, sheet metal questions, API questions. 99% of what I design is plastic injection molded parts. my interests lie in part design issues and questions, assembly issues and questions, some visualize, drawings. Sure, I may peruse other areas and read a thread that piques my interst but it takes far longer now to find any relevant content because I have to skip past all the garbage I don't care about. with the old forums, I knew the content was there if I needed to go look for it but now I have to weed through all the noise to find the things I'm interested in instead of knowing right were to look for the things I was interested in and then perusing the weeds if I had time to burn.