Cool stuff, I like the new look for the factions. Saves my battered old mouse a little more torture.
However; as the other folks here have said, I think that Watering Holes should have its own subforum, simply because it's substantially different from 'Stories and Biographies'. The key difference being that watering holes are generally open threads - anyone can post there, within reason. Most of the stories and biographies posts are closed RPs. It's a right pain to dig through pages of threads just to find the ones that I'm allowed to post in if I'm just looking for a bit of RP.
Perhaps its petty of me, but the idea of having my three thousand word story entry knocked off the front page by "Trent wandered over to the bar and ordered a sidewinder fang." miffs me a little.