Customize which forums you want to see

I'd like to suggest that as these forums keep getting bigger that the be some way to allow me to customize which forums I want to see. It could be as coarse as just having a scroll up for each of the large categories (Programming Languages, Programming Languages - More, etc.) but I'd really like to be able to only see the forums I want to see on the "main" page (http://forums.devshed.com/).

The goal is two-fold. The first is that I often refresh the main page to see what forums have new posts. Perhaps there are other usage models but that is what I do. The second would be that it would allow additional forums. For example, there was a discussion in this forum regarding adding a QMail forum. By allowing me to view or not view particular forums many more forums could be added. However, I recognize that a particular forum that gets two posts a month is virtually useless so this benefit might be minimal at best.

I also realize that this is not a trivial task. Maintaining on a per user basis the forums to display isn't minor. Nor are the issues of how to announce a new forum so that people know it is there and letting me modify what forums I actually want to see.

Is my usage pattern different than others? Any thoughts are welcome.

Check out the User CP link in the main title bar, and subscribe to the forums you want to see, and you just jump to the http://forums.devshed.com/usercp.php? instead of forums.devshed.com

Agreed.

To subscribe to a forum, go to the forum page, click on "Forum Tools" (on the top right of the thread listing), and select "Subscribe to This Forum" from the drop-down menu. The forum will then appear in your User CP.

Ok, that's in the ball park, though kinda cluttered.

Really a new forum model needs to be created. This linear list type of thing isn't quite right. I'm not sure what is correct myself - maybe a portal type of model with different forums and classes of forums in a single portlet. Maybe a tree structure where I can expand and collapse nodes. Maybe both.

Hmm, all the forums I visit have RSS, maybe something with that. With my copious free time maybe I'll just whip that up.

Thanks for the information.

goto the top of the thread and click on Display Modes, check them out

I just keep a folder in my bookmarks toolbar for all the forums I visit. In each folder, I have all the forums within each forum I most commonly visit.