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Honestly it doesn't actually make much of a difference from a management perspective.

As for looking smaller, it's a trade-off. You can have a forum that looks smaller but more active, or a forum that looks bigger but less active. Toho's comment about forums with two-year-old threads on the front page is a sign that we were too far on the "less active" side of things, and activity is the main thing that drives a website -- if people see other people being active, they themselves are more likely to be active. Meanwhile, if a person doesn't see a lot of other activity, they're more likely to just forget to come back.