Do we need subject categories?

I do not believe that subject categories are useful here. This is a discussion site and any topic can be interesting.

I'll have to disagree with @LadyDuck on this one... the old myLot used to be set up so that there were a variety of interest categories. In my opinion, this new layout is nowhere as convenient as the old one was. That may just be the amount of time I spent on the site talking (I originally joined in 2006). I spent years jumping from category to category as they popped up on the top of the page after a new discussion was posted in them. I guess my main complaint with this layout boils down to "it's change that forces me out of my comfort zone!" which isn't really constructive criticism... I've been spending most of my time looking for discussions through the Most Recent tab. My complaint with doing that is that after a while, it glitches and the content is repeated. I'd love to see them reintroduce pages for discussions. This infinite scrolling/hidden response threads in discussions thing drives me crazy.

They used to have categories, so people could gather under them and duke it out over politics and religion, etc. There is a post by admin that suggests using broad categories in your tags, like "family" "religion" "photography", etc. so that the tags will be more useful when it comes to how the system sorts the discussions you see under "Interesting" because it wants them to be interesting to you.

I think that tags are enough in my opinion

I guess it would help if we are looking only for particular areas of interest.. The current version opens up the whole field for discussion. I am glad there isn't too much religion or politics here.

I like the idea of having categories too, I think it would encourage more interaction if people can find topics that they're interested in. I hope the admin will consider having them!