Interesting suggestions. I can see how it might make sense to merge the hardware and software versions of the troubleshooting, bugs & suggestions, and development forums. I think the hardware and software interfacing topics are pretty different, even though they have the same name. Still, combining some of the other forums could "make room" for splitting up the hardware interfacing forum into a few different subject-based forums (e.g. "Motion & Motors", "Sound", "Light & Displays", "Sensing & Input"), which is something I think would be useful. What do you think?
These changes probably won't happen quickly, but I'll definitely continue to mull them over, and they'll probably happen one of these days.