Stephen: should be an option to navigate back to the categories
Hi Stephen: how's the 300 restoration going?
As for categories: at the top of each post, is the same navigation tree (which are clickable links)
Forum > Categories > Web Navigation > Template
Clicking on Categories takes you to all the categories (Boards). It's true there are more now....we're trying to make the forum more of the central point of the overall website (as opposed to > separate distinct, often different software and different templates and navigation, segments). This probably translates into more boards on the forum. while I agree less is better for easy in and out... in some cases, especially with surfers (since we are opening the site up up for google searching by subject) you get very little opportunity to capture their interest, and the more of a smorgasboard you can present them (versus sending them all over the place through separate links) the better.
I am giving some thought into adding a separate category for Sightings (pre-war and post war) again, to take them out of the General discussion. There are some that have no interest in our sighting postings.... and for them, rather than have to drill-down through the general discussion category, they can simply ignore the sightings category when doing there daily check-in. On a related subject, all images and postings of a sightings nature (cars for sale found on the internet), are captured painstakingly by John Ellis and put into a separate gallery software under (pre-war and post-war) sightings. John does about 20 cars per week, which translates into about 4 hours of his time. In most cases, those images in the sighting postings on the forum, stay on the forum (about 3500 last count) and I think unfortunately, a lot of surfers do not take the time to go to those separate links to view the sightings archives. So this is all an effort to centralize things, save our time to focus on other things, make it easier for a quick navigational buffet of what we have to offer and hope that every returns another day, subscribes, etc....
Hope this all makes sense.