Originally posted by: greencapt
Will the new forums have a branching thread structure allowing sub 'folders' with a topic area?

IE:

Off Topic (folder)--- Comic Books (folder)--- Star Wars Comics (folder)--- threads
--- Marvel Comics (folder)--- threads
--- Movie Tie-In Comics (folder)--- threads

The new software does support categories that contain forums:

Category 1
- Forum 1
- Forum 2

Category 2
- Forum 3
- Forum 4

If you look at the forum you gave as an example (vBulletin), you'll see it's the exact same structure. They just link to the categories with the forums on a separate page instead of breaking them out on the index page because they have so many.