I wrote: But what I can do, starting this weekend, is to radically simplify the site by removing from view all the bells-n-whistles beyond forums. In case anyone's following this thread, I made a good start, but didn't finish it. Check out the landing page for each section, that is, the top item on the menu corresponding to the forum itself. E.g., Click "Space/Science" in the menu bar to see the Space landing page.

What slowed me down is that the tikiwiki module that I thought would display a forum TOC, instead...in true tikiwiki fashion...displayed some sort of list of "recent" posts apparently determined according to some arcane algorithm involving post age, number of replies, and phase of the moon. So I had to write my own tikiwiki module to do a TOC like we're familiar with.

This first pass is flat: Just the top-level posts. Stay tuned, recursion tomorrow, and before you know it, a tree-shaped TOC! Huzzah!