Forum Categories Update

Attempting to keep the forum organized where posts are findable is a never-ending task. We've made some more updates to forum structure today with a goal (admittedly arbitrary!) that there be no more than 15 items in any category. That means at the top level there will be no more than 14 forums, and each subforum will have no more than 15 subcategories - we will group categories together anytime they exceed 15 in number. This is to prevent interminable scrolling in any one listing.

The forum software is very good at making automatic adjustments, but one downside of forum reorganization is that existing links can break. If you run into broken links let us know here in this thread and we'll fix them as quickly as possible.

At present, the top level structure of the forum will be:

1. General Information And Discussion - Start Here
2. Private Section - Includes Level 03 And Above Discussions and 20th Zoom Meeting
3. The Lucretius Today Podcast and other Projects
4. Events, Outreach, and Activism, Including EpicureanFriends Zoom Meetings
5. Physics - The Nature of the Universe
6. Canonics - The Tests of Truth: The Five Senses, Anticipations, and Feelings of Pleasure and Pain
7. Ethics - How To Live As An Epicurean
8. Epicurean Historical Figures - Biographies of Epicureans from Epicurus To The Present
9. Ancient Epicurean Texts - 300 BC to 300 AD
10. Material Of Special Significance (Commentaries and Textbooks)
11. Materials After the Classical Epicurean Period (300 - 2000's)
12. Comparisons With Non-Epicurean Philosophies
13. Epicurean Lifestyle, Culture, And Places of Interest
14. Epicurean Symbolism in Art, Music, Literature, and Poetry

I will broaden the "Lifestyle" title

Has anyone seen any studies or well-founded recommendations on how many items in a list can be comfortably handled at one time? I am thinking i have hear recommendations as to how long a list of things is manageable, but maybe that's in relation to how high crows seem to be able to count rather than humans

At the moment I think we should enforce a limit of 15 categories in any single forum list, and if we get up to 15 we combine one or more of the others so that the number never gets higher than 15.

But it's possible that it would be better for the number to be 10 or less.

Anyone have any ideas or links or "gut feels" as to how long a list can be before it becomes too irritating to scroll through?