The top 10 topics showcase is unnecessary

I mean seriously, is that really needed? It's a bit distracting. Besides, it seems any thread will show up in it if a post is made, making it pretty redundant as a "top 10."

If anything, I wouldn't mind an option to remove its display in the our settings.

Agree. And it really only serves to crowd up those topics even more. If anything the feature should be used to drum up more views for new topics.

I believe that "Top 10 Topics" is a bad name for the feature, but I think that the concept of having a list of trending topics is a neat idea. Since not all of the boards are listed immediately on the main forum page, it opens the ability to expose users to boards that might not have known even existed, and I believe it's worth at least trying out in its current form. We'll see if it sticks around once the forums become better established, but in the meantime I see no reason to remove the feature.