@Alastir
I appreciate you assembling this list from the other forums, I think we can greatly collapse some of this, because tags should actually work here.
For instance you could have a Professions category and all discussions under that could get the relevant tag and it should be useful. Still investigating.
Whatever we do... we should make sure to include Savants. They are real and do exist!
Where do we post loresong records, roleplay ... stuff, or, you know, things Newsby wants you to know?
We'll work directly with you Luxelle, this board has a lot of features that may be able to circumvent or solve a lot of Newby requirements due to each thread being able to be identified as an RSS feed, which can subsequently feed other solutions. If we set up a proper group/topic/whatnot for use by Newsby, I think we'll be able to help with a lot of your efforts. We can talk about it in more details as necessary in Discord.