Please be precise in where you would like to see the Watches forum and others, We can move things around but I cant picture what you are saying?
thanks
I can't remember the details precisely, but before BirdForum was restructured with the switch to the current interface,
Binoculars was a subforum within a broader category of
Birding Equipment or something like that.
Spotting Scopes and Tripods was also a subforum within that larger birding equipment forum, as were Photography,
Watches in the Field, Digiscoping, Sound Recording, and maybe some other topics. Consequently, when a BirdfForum user interested in some sort of equipment would browse back to the Birding Equipment level in the forum structure (as I did frequently, to switch between the Binoculars subforum and the Scopes and Tripods subforum, they would see the other subforums listed with the latest topic under discussion on that subforum and so might be enticed to give one of those other subforums a look from time to time.
When BirdForum was restructured,
Binoculars and Spotting Scopes became its own forum, so a user such as myself doesn't have to back out as far to switch between them and so never sees other equipment forums or subforums that might be of interest from time to time. To see those other equipment related forums, a user has to back up all the way to the forum level. In this new structure, the optics equipment forums of greatest interest (highest traffic), namely
Binoculars and Spotting Scopes and
Photography and Digiscoping are separated from each at the forum level and from some closely related forums or subforums of less interest that are lost in the dust-bin category
General Outdoor Equipment. I think it might be good to move the
Bird Sounds Recording subforum to the
Photography and Digiscoping forum, since it is a closely related topic. Short of putting all the equipment forums back into a Birding Equipment forum, I'm not sure how to solve the problem for the Watches subforum. Maybe it would be best to move it into the
Miscellaneous Nature Study Equipment subforum so visitors there would see it. Or maybe a better solution would be to dissolve the Miscellaneous Nature Study Equipment subforum and bring everything there out to
General Outdoor Equipment. Having watches as its own subforum elevates it from other topics, but ironically into a level where it is rarely stumbled across. It is orphaned and not seen unless a person specifically seeks it out.
Hope this helps.
--AP