SASless wrote a post that's sums up our feeling very well indeed - especially the last sentence.
It's my 17th year of running PPRuNe and my biggest single regret is us dealing with the scale of the site by turning it into a series of geographical, job type and specialisation ghettos that many people never venture out of.
It's our fault, it's the way we coped with the overwhelming traffic. I do have at least a partial solution for it but the funding for the software to allow a single thread to exist across more than one forum has never been set aside or simply has been seen as 'far too difficult.' In this way a training thread could exist here, the instructors' forum and also the most relevant geographical one.
I actually think we've got far too many forums and over the period I'm discussing the number of visits has grown immensely but the number of pages read per visit has halved - the ghetto effect.
Regards to all,
Rob