The merged update forums might appear more active and are perhaps easier for moderators to keep track of. However, I find it nigh impossible to weed out projects that might interest me as a player/developer. My attempts at using the search bar have failed.

There is already a filter to at least partially solve this. The updates are attached to hubs. Those hubs have tags. Please do the following:

• Place the hub tag cloud in both the Game Update and Demos & Libraries forums.
• Make selecting a tag limit the display of forum posts to projects with that tag.