i feel like that could lead to people metadiscussing the topic instead of discussing it.

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talking about things without a topic is hard. sustaining a discussion on nothing is not possible. it's like the awfulness of small talk, but worse since it's in forum format.
english has about 8 letters per bit of actual information, just compress it optimally using Algorithms?
as cool as it sounds, i'm unlikely to be able to contribute meaningfully to the creation of a project right now. maybe i'd consider it more if it already existed and i could contribute to it, and it also had a cool codebase that was cool and not bad.
"last activity" should recurse upwards across subforae and also include actions like making subforæ.
maybe you should look at thread 367. finding thread 367 is left as an exercise to the reader.
"well I don't want to use more than one mod at a time" is not really a justification for this.
having many forks WILL in practice lead to horrible incompatbility, developers not collaborating on things or standardizing anything, etc.
surely if it's open source, people can just look at the source code and deduce what it should do, and imagine what their computer would do in response to it.