I actually agree with you that a site with more forums takes more time to navigate and it seems that this community and it's moderator / owner also agree that we have enough forums. I make mention of the split because every so often we have some new member join who brings up our obsessive focus on gear and raises the question of why we don't bother to discuss or focus on skills, training and conditioning. Seems a common newbie question. While we don't ignore these issues it is clear that we don't give them anywhere near the same attention as we do to gear. If there were forums that focused on these issues perhaps newbies who were interested in discussing those issues would feel more welcome and stick around discussing them. Rather than coming here, raising the recurring question, getting told the obvious - "gear is important (and fun to discuss) - and then going else where to discuss primitive skills, survival training, physical conditioning thus leaving our community poor in those areas because they aren't here maintaining an lively discussion on those topics.

The evidence that we are not retaining these new members is clear in that time and time again other new members show up and point out our communities lack of discussion of these topics.

If we wish to support discussion on these topics we might find that individuals interested in discussing them would find it easier to ignore our gear centrism if they had their own place to discuss skills and training.

In anycase, I am perfectly happy with the focus and navigation of the topics that we have here and I am not a moderator or owner of the site so weighing the competeting desire to better welcome discussion of skills and training against the desire for swift navigation and tighter focus of content is not my job.