The forums suck, in part because of the fact that General, being the default forum, gets disproportionate amount of attention. The developers have suggested before that they may want to create a new forum landing page where posts from each of the forum are show together. This is a great idea, so instead of waiting for them to finish this SOON™, I thought I might have a go at creating it myself.
The following is a proof of concept userscript that pulls in the first few posts of various other subforums and stick them under general, while reducing the number of posts from general to balance things out. Note the script only runs on the front page of General, and that this script will slow down loading of that page, sometimes considerably. Pages are cached locally for 10 mins by default.
Install | Screenshot | Source (with configuration instructions)
Feedback, complaints, flaming bags of guano, etc. are always welcome.