I am in strong agreement with @tomaka on this one.
There does not seem to me to be a significant advantage to creating a new forum, or even a new section in my opinion.
It feels like all posts on this forum get adequate visibility, and that tags have already been sufficient to categorize posts for certain sub-communities. The clear disadvantage of creating a new forum is fragmentation of a community that is more powerful when brought together.
Finally, speaking on Kusama as a community, I am certainly in agreement that Kusama has a different culture, and that is great! However, it is important that Kusama, and the Kusama community, remembers what the ultimate purpose of the network is: a canary network.
Kusama should grow and explore areas that Polkadot will not, but it should remained centered with the purpose and needs of Polkadot. The illustration above is trying to show that Kusama must pretty much always be a superset of the Polkadot network. Thus, it should always prioritize:
- Being a relay chain and security hub for parachains (meaning forgoing things like smart contracts on Kusama directly or other things which would eat blockspace)
- Testing / Scaling of Polkadot’s core mechanics:
- Parachains Protocol
- Consensus and Finalization
- Staking
- Governance
- Parachain Scheduling
- etc…
I do worry at times, that the Kusama community is a bit too ambitious with some of their goals, and wanting to push too far away from the core Polkadot Network. I think that a separate forum may only push that further.