There are more music threads, but I think there are more non-music posts. Before the split, the 700-message chit-chat threads were constantly at the top of the Forum Menu because they were constantly getting messages to refresh them. To get to the music threads, you had to scroll down to the bottom of the page, since most were not even visible on the screen. People were constantly crabbing about the preponderance of BS posts. We discussed starting a separate forum for BS, but decided we didn't want to divide Mudcat like that. Many of the people who can best answer music inquiries, spend most of their time in the BS threads. If we moved BS to a different forum, those people would never see the music inquiries.
Jeff's idea of splitting the forum and leaving it all on one screen, was simple and elegant. Some people don't like it, but the option of mixed messages is available to registered members on the Mudcat Membership page, or in "messages since last visit."
I think it was a wonderful solution to a problem that plagued us for years.
-Joe-