As one of the more spirited participants in the MLP community group, I would like to chime in and say that I am perfectly fine with how things are right now. I like how MLP:FiM has its own community sub-board. Bronies are a
community after all, so it makes logical sense that bronies would have their own "community group" sub-forum. Besides, I almost never go to the main Furtopia page to find recent posts. Instead, I find out what topics on Furtopia have had recent activity each day by clicking on the
"Active Topics" link at the top of every Furtopia page. That way I rarely miss anything, no matter what topic or sub-forum it is posted in.
I'm sure that I am going to open up a real can of worms here by saying this, but considering the fact that it seems like the majority of the rabble-rousing here is coming from two furs that frequent the "Furry Tech Talk" community group, I have a feeling that the
real problem here is not the popularity of the MLP community group nor where the Furry Tech Talk community group is located within the hierarchy of Furtopia's forums. Instead, I think that the problem here is that the disgruntled Furry Tech Talk members are failing to realize that deep-geek technical talk is too uninteresting and/or too over the heads of the majority of the members here and are using the bronies as a straw man to blame for their lack of sub-forum activity instead. And this is coming from a guy who both frequently visits and posts in the Furry Tech Talk board as much as anyone else here! I collect vintage computers as a hobby, I'm a computer programmer, I solder my own electronics, and I have an Amateur Extra-Class amateur radio license-- I am as much the targeted audience for the Furry Tech Talk community group here as anybody!!!
At the same time however, I also have come to the realization over the years that 90+% of the people in this world just aren't extremely enthusiastic about such topics as modifying the key length in GnuPG through altering its source code, whether you prefer to use vi, emacs, or Windows Notepad to author your text-files with, why VLIW-architecture microprocessors never achieved the success in the marketplace that was predicted of them, how to incorporate an op-amp into an analog circuit, what new features were added to the most recent release of the Eclipse IDE, what the future of the Cell processor in Sony products will be, or what new digital transmission modes the FCC just allowed hams to use on the 31m-band. All but the most geeky of people here in these forums just don't care about these kinds of topics (Furtopia is a "furry" community and not a "tech" community after all), and as a result the members posting in the Furry Tech Talk group shouldn't be suddenly surprised when their posts only garner the attention and replies of the very few furs here that do care. To further my point, Alsek dug the grave for his own argument in his very first post to this thread-- he stated how the Furry Tech Talk community group has been around since 2003 and yet after less than a year the MLP:FiM community group has buried it in terms of amount of activity. You know what that proves? That the Furry Tech Talk community group was *never* that active here relatively speaking, either before the MLP sub-forum was created, or after, and booting the MLP sub-forum out of the community groups section
isn't going to somehow miraculously change that fact.
Now don't get me wrong-- I am all for the existence of a Furry Tech Talk community group sub-forum here. As I mentioned above, I am as active in it as anyone else here generally, and every once in a while it really is nice to have a place to talk about technical things with other furs. But suddenly blaming the MLP community group for its lack of traffic? I'm sorry, but that's just sour grapes.