DS is an old platform, but there are still people working on new projects even now. I strongly disagree that the consolidated forum is better. There used to be many different subcategories: game discussion, translation/hacking projects, hardware/modding, emulation, homebrew, etc. It's really hard to navigate now with all these lumped together under one giant forum. I know the rationale was to "increase engagement," but in reality there's not necessarily much overlap in interests in the different aspects, even if they're all related to DS.
The filter tags in theory should help, but they're vague and prone to user mislabels. 'Hacking' and 'Translation' and 'ROM Hack' seem to be used interchangeably. 'Gaming' instead of game discussions, bring up a whole bunch of help threads. In fact, 'Gaming', 'Misc', 'Hardware', 'Hacking', 'Homebrew', etc are all filled with people seeking technical support.
It's hard to pick out the project announcements and actual discussion threads from all these.
On top of that, each of these subcategories used to have their own pinned threads, but many of them are lost to the depths now. Some of the threads I referenced a lot in the past include pinned threads of recommended games in the game discussion subcategory, and pinned threads of translation resources and on-going translation projects in the translation subcategory, and these are just gone now. I don't know why it's only the 'Homebrew' and 'Hacking' topics that get sticky priority, when there's so much more to the NDS platform.
It's making the browsing experience rather unpleasant.
