Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-168424-20130114045853/@comment-3508190-20130114062044

Mathmagician wrote:

The main benefit of topics (as I see it) is organizational: it gives the ability to browse forum threads by topic. For example, Topic:JavaScript lists threads here in the Central forums which are related to JavaScript.

Boring. Why not use topics to improve search results? Allow wiki editors to keyword and tag everything! That's much better than using redirects and categories to trick the search into interpreting the page contents as intended.