Well having been away from the boards when the switch happened, I was confused when I came back, as it took me a while to figure out what was going on.
Alright, don't make fun of me, I know it should not have been that tough, but I am slow so ease up.....
Anyway, I have two opinions, and they are in contradiction to each other, so take it for what it is worth.
There are several topics that start on one board, that are closed and the author is directed to start the same topic in the other board as it fits better in the other board, which I think is a pain, since it may be a topic I am interested in, and I then have to go over to the other board to follow it.
In addition, there was a time last week, or the week before, where there was a large number of topics closed, as they related to MC9, and moved to the MC9 board, that took up a lot of room on the first page of the MJ8 Board, pushing some of the more useful topics onto the next page.
The other side of the coin however, is that newbie's might get confused. Maybe an additional field that allows for a version that the topic relates to, and some filters that would allow you to filter out one version or another if you were not interested in those topics.
Concise and to the point! yea right! ?