there have been more new posts in this thread berating me for merging the ergo threads into the main keyboard forum than there were in the ergo forum in the month prior to me merging the ergo threads into the main keyboard forum.
here's my suggestion. if you say: "i want things to be exactly the way they were", that's not constructive. i've already explained why that doesn't really work for us.
if instead you say: "these were the things (eg, better search, easy differentiation of new topics) that i got out of the ergo subforum, and they're still important to me", then that's the beginnings of being constructive, because it tells me what i can implement to give you that functionality, while still avoiding the problems that the dedicated forum provided.
ideally, if you could say: "these were the things I got out of the ergo subforum, and here's an idea for how we can get these things back." that's by far the most constrctive, because now i can build a roadmap to get you those things that can turn into executable code, and ta-da, your grandest dreams come true.
here are/were my ideas:
1) build a curated megathread that contains links to the information that was most popular in the old ergo subforum. keep it updated, and instead of having those 2-3 active threads from the ergo subforum, maintain a single large thread in this forum that encompasses all those things as well as linking out to information that at this point is largely read-only, and archived some pages back.
2) tell me what you're trying to find, what search string you're trying to use, and what you're finding with that search string instead of what you want to find. i can tweak the search engine included in SMF, and we're looking at integrating a much more advanced (and significantly faster) sphinx-based solution as well.
3) participate in the new ergo discussions that are popping up from newbies in this forum right now. the nice thing about having one large forum is that it is very friendly to new users. have a question about keyboards? you don't need to spend 30 minutes searching for the right subcategorization to put your question in: just ask! eventually a more organic ergo ecosystem should evolve, assuming, as you are, that there's enough interest in ergo-boards to, at one point, have justified a subforum.