Since I read the Aid Climbing Forum and not the Trip Report Forum, but like to read TRs about Aid/Wall Climbs, I like it when people post them here. However, rules are rules.

No, rules are guidelines, and sometimes they need to be re-examined. This kind of situation crops up repeatedly and screams out for subcategories; I'll make that my next active project (after the current 4 are completed), unless Eric, Trevor, or Biff want to tackle it.

The mod is rather trivial:

http://rpgnet.clanmckeen.com/demo/index.php?go=0&vgo=0

Linking threads into multiple forums might be more problematic, but only slightly so; if we don't mind maxing out at 2 categories per thread, adding a single column to the POSTS_TABLE will do the trick, along with an extra clause in a few SQL queries (maybe 5-10, but this is just a guess).

I'm growing less and less concerned about forking phpbb2 as they take longer and longer to hit milestones, and we diverge further from them philosophically. I'd like to wait for 2.2, but on the other hand, this could happen ASAP and make things run a lot more smoothly around here.

For example, adding subcategories for certain subtopics ('Warrior's Way' within T&T, etc.) and multiple-linkage (this post could easily split off into a thread in Source Code) would be a good idea...

There are a lot of things that 'would be nice'; the more Supporting Partners we can sign up, and the more discretionary project funding we therefore have to earmark for stuff like this, the faster we can move on it. When we're asking someone to spend a lot of time on a project that might be horribly tedious and painful (like a large-scale forums hack), it never hurts to offer an incentive.