Under both Audacity Stable and Audacity Unstable, there’s a General forum, and each of these forums has a Windows subforum (“Post here if you are running Audacity on Microsoft Windows”). For Audacity Stable, there are currently 25 topics under the General forum and another 34 topics under the GeneralWindows subforum.
Surely the vast majority of the 25 topics under the General forum involve users “running Audacity on Microsoft Windows.” So the practical effect of having the Windows subforum just seems to be that the “Audacity under Windows” posts are being arbitrarily split into two forum listings with no real substantive difference between the two forums.
This could mean, for example, that a user would post on an issue in one forum while being completely unaware that someone else had recently posted on the same issue (because that post was in the other forum). And it means that, for someone like me that likes to browse the recent topics every week or two, I need to browse two separate forums (with no substantive difference) rather than one.
And for that matter, I assume that many of the topics that will be posted in the Mac and Linux subforums will also be of interest to Windows users (and vice versa) because they involve issues that aren’t really OS-specific – e.g., yesterday’s “What’s Up With the Normalization Options?” post in the Mac subforum.
I guess where I’m heading is: Shouldn’t the three OS subforums be limited to issues that are really OS-specific? If that’s already the intention, it’s not consistent with the subforum descriptions (e.g., “Post here if you are running Audacity on Microsoft Windows” for the Windows subforum).
Am I missing something?