James said:

by cutting down the number of forums there is more chance that people will spot/bother to read through other forums. When you are presented with a huge list of forums you tend to just check the regular forums.

Wrong !

The forums should all have a strong theme, otherwise you might as well have just one big one. People are less likely to read a forum that contains lots of irrelevant posts to the subject they're interested in.

Random doesn't really have a distinct topic anyway, it's more of a catch-all for shite that doesn't fit into any of the other categorys. Jokes, however, DEWISOTT !

As for links on the entrance page, I never use it, I've got the forums bookmarked.

Seperate most deffo!

 

Random Bollox already gets enuff posts in, and with jokes as well.... people wont bother reading it @ all.... then thats the "social" side of the forum....