Texrat and fatalsaint, I think we have different levels of patience here. I have the feeling that you're letting the Perfect be the enemy of the Good. Perhaps because you have more interest in the N900/Fremantle, you may still see this Forum as Good Enough. For me, the current state of the forum is clearly Not Good.

Sure, there are instances where a person could post in different threads. I don't see that as a big deal. If they post a thread in "OS/Platform: Fremantle" or in "Software: Fremantle," it just isn't going to make much difference. Maybe they can't tell where software ends and hardware begins and they post it in "Devices: N900." So what? Usually they'll probably be right, and it just doesn't much matter if they aren't.

The Diablo world however has little overlap with the Fremantle world, so they need to be split. Maybe someday Mer will make that distinction fuzzy -- well, at that point, a person can look through both.

Your posts have done nothing to show me what's lacking in just (A) dividing up Software by OS (with or without subcategories for Apps, Games, etc.) and (B) instituting a checkbox filtering mechanism for Searches including the New Posts search.

I'm yet to see a specific hypothetical that shows a significant problem.

Less important:
As far as I'm concerned, Software could be divided up into (1) Games and (2) All Software Other Than Games (and other than the OS Itself, which would still be under OS/Platform). Then there would be

Fremantle
--Games
--All Software Other Than Games

Diablo/Chinook
--Games
--All Software Other Than Games

And when Harmattan gets software of its own, the above categories would continue to exist, along with, above those,

Harmattan
--Games
--All Software Other Than Games