They reduced/combined the number of forums when they went to the new software, due to the limited daily action in some of them.
In actuallity the forums aren't crowded. If you look at the dates of the first post of a thread, the number of new questions per day is not really very great. What you see is a vast collection of previously asked and answered questions that can be accessed by using the search tool and then never even have to post a question. One of the prime purposes of this type of forum, help and a large data base of previous help.
Many of the users of the previous forum wish that they still had access to the myriad threads there. So actually saved much of the old forum stuff.
As for forum feedback, its intent certainly doesn't seem to warrant a vast amount of action. Many posts in it do not belong in that forum.
Of course this is my personal opinion.
Lee et al, please consider splitting up some of the larger forums - such as PC Applications, and perhaps also the Forum Feedback forum - into sub discussions.
Some forums have grown large enough that it's becom daunting to wade through them.

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