I have to say that I find this rather interesting and somewhat distressing that "Klipsch" allowed a couple of recent discussions which degraded into veiled personal attacks, somewhat racist and very politically charged verbiage to drag on and on, and didn't seem to think that it was detracting from the reputation and public appearance of the forum, yet now is making this not so slick move to lessen the visibility of the "offending" sub forums....So, apparently "Klipsch" feels that this is an improvement, and was not your decision to make this change? Bad form is right.... considering the amount of activity and readership (and marketing value BTW), that this forum receives and provides, it would be at the least courteous to make an announcement that there will be a slight change in format, that "non-audio" sub-forum topics will no longer appear automatically in the Recent Posts section....blah, blah, blah.
And moving Garage Sale/Alerts from recent posts? REALLY bad move.