Right now you have this forum list set in an expanded view, so that every forum is visible. If you go to http://forums.bellaonline.com you'll see that my board is set up in a compressed view, so that you only see the forums grouped by channel, and a content island showing recent posts in that entire channel. We have far too many forums to actually have every single forum show up one by one down the page.

Any chance that your compressed view option will be able to show an "across channel" content island, just like your expanded view shows a forum-specific content island? I'm sure other people with large numbers of forums would appreciate this option If not, I can just keep manually coding it in ...