EzekielRaiden
Follower of the Way
Yeah, it's been my experience that this is exactly what happens in other boards. Fork out the "old" stuff and sure, it doesn't get buried under a ton of other things. Instead it never even gets the chance to be seen in the first place.Nice theory.
I suspect, however, that the practice will be that this sub-forum gets very little traffic and not many new threads. (though I'd be happy to be wrong in my suspicions).
Not that I think there's a better way, to be clear. There really isn't one, it's an unwinnable situation. Getting drowned out in the vast ocean of more popular topics, or dying in obscurity in a subforum that won't get but a tiny fraction of the attention that the "active, living" edition forum does. (Consider, for instance, that the oldest front-page thread on the PF forums is from August 7, nearly five months ago. The oldest thread on the front page of the 5e/General D&D forum is from merely five days ago.)
The only exceptions to this trend that I've seen were either "forking out the active, living edition from an even broader forum" (e.g. pulling D&D out of tabletop RPGs in general) or, being relatively blunt, "3.X + Pathfinder," since PF reinvigorated the 3rd edition community that might otherwise have moved on.