I know you guys have probably discussed this before but I think it's worth reconsidering every year. This place is very inactive and a lot of people don't get replies on their threads, combining related issues would mean the front page of each forum section had recent posts and that more people would see each post
If people manage to escape from the claws of the intentionally addictive social media sites and come back to nice, friendly forums (which aren't engineered to be addictive) maybe some day the number of visitors will go back up, but in the meantime this could mean more people get the support they need