A Different Home Page

Think about the following idea, not implemented anywhere else.

Problem:
(1) Many new forums suffer from the lack of visitors.
(2) Many forums often have poor subdivision into subforums which is often confusing, arbitrary and poorly elaborated.
(3) Visitors tend to post in a subforum where THEY SEE MOST OTHER POSTS, not where their topic logically belongs, because they want their post to be seen by as many other ppl as possible, and they don't care about categorization.

Solution:
Now, suppose we would have a home page consisting of NEW POSTS entirely (posted for a certain period of time, say, a week) which would look like this:

SUBFORUM 1
This is a subforum about such-and-such...

Jack       Topic title 1....
(A short beginning of the message...)

Dragon    Topic title 2....
(A short beginning of the message...)

.....

SUBFORUM 2
This is a subforum about such-and-such...

Jill        Topic title  3....
(A short beginning of the message...)

Greeny     Topic title  4....
(A short beginning of the message...)

......

SUBFORUM 3
This is a subforum about such-and-such...

.....

The page can be quite long, doesn't matter how long.

Now, new visitors can see what's been going on lately, they see where most life is, and how many people posted recently in such-and-such category, and they are more willing to participate. On the other hand, errors of categorization introduced by the administrator during the categorization stage don't matter that much, because it basically works as if there were no categorization at all -- you can see all recent posts in a nutshell in a bird's-eye-view. A sort of a flat file, rather than multipage file.

Of course, you can keep the old way as well, and let the administrator choose which one to use. And, most features should be adjustable (the number of posts, number of post lines, etc)