bump!
I was just wondering...
Perhaps we could have the General Chat section replaced by the Coffee Bar, within which we could have boards like Competitions, Picture Threads, News and Currant Affairs, Waffledom (containing waffle threads, 'mood rooms', and foody threads (unless these went in a child board)), and a Calendar board (for the Happy Birthday thread, but also for other calendar-related posts).
I was just thinking that given that the Coffee Bar is the most popular board, it might make sense to expand it into a structure that would make it easier to navigate (and would make the application of sticky status to some threads more effective).