However, another way to think about a separate area like this is that it would pull all the pesky Arduino questions into one "corral".
No it wouldn't
- at least without a lot of moderator intervention to move topics - because newbies either don't know enough to care and dump their unimaginatively titled question in whatever vaguely appropriate area they first arrive in, (hopefully not necroposting), or don't have enough experience to make a judgement call on whether their issue is a general electronic circuit design issue, is generic to any MCU, or is really Arduino specific.
IMHO the only hope would be some sort of topic tagging system which SMF doesn't really do
- although there are addons that encourage/enforce topic prefixes - which if no tags were selected, suggested some based on topic content, and also suggested alternative subforums for new topics based on the tags.
It would still probably be a real mess, and cool features come at a price that isn't always obvious up front, e.g. the recent mess with attachments which coincidentally or not, appeared fairly soon after an addon that enhanced inlining of attached images was installed, so any such ideas should be considered with a large dose of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"
Anyway, who uses subforums other than when digging for old topics or starting a new one? I do most of my reading through the links:
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