Hello there Sam, how is your day today ?
I’m a user of the same forum, registered to share my opinion on the topic.
I can see you don’t like the idea of off-topic threads but they are necessary for user retention. In order for one forum to keep more users they must have “lounge space” where users can post just random things. Not everything deserves to be a new thread but at the same time users of the community want to share those ideas with other like minded individuals.
With that said I do believe that a feature like that but not enabled by default would benefit both worlds. Yours as the default would be as you like it, and ours as there would be an option in “preferences” that would allow this feature.
I am by no means programmer and don’t know how much work/time such a feature would take, but what do you think is this feasible in the near future ?