Specific complaints: for each board, I would like either the name
or the description to specifically say what the thing is without needing to be a joke.
Real Life is fine.
Thad's Politics Extravaganza is probably inferrable from some combination of the title and description, and I feel like Thad's rep as the politicontent moderator isn't hard to figure out.
Media works, I guess, but neither
High-Context Discourse nor its description makes sense until you already know that the board is for topics about the forum itself. Guild Hall has the same issue.
Most of the boards in Mount Brontolympus, The Land That Time Forgot, and The Land That Time Would Rather Forget feel like they would be better served being grouped as child boards under a single archival board, rather than taking up a third of the front page. I assume they're taking up half of our six board categories principally as a hierarchical measure, in order to screen the more skeletally-infested of our closets from our newest visitors.
The other three board categories are not mutually exclusive, so what goes in one vs another is arbitrary.
Discussion Boards should contain threads where discussion is taking place, except when the things being discussed are games, as those go in the
Game Boards—unless the games are happening on the forum themselves (or, it's a Discussion Board topic about something you yourself have made), in which case you should post it in the
Activity Boards. Heaven help you if your day job involved making a game that you'd like to discuss with people on the boards while scheduling multiplayer sessions for.