That was the general idea. We also wanted to more clearly divide up the various sections and knocked around a whole slew of different layouts and breakdowns of the categories. Get the fan done stuff all in one category, get the universe discussion separate from rules discussion, get all the official stuff like announcements and rules up top/first.
A lot of the reason the old one was so convoluted was we just kept adding to it without really sitting back for a review -- it also would have been awkward to move it around while people were trying to use it as well as posts in some sections may have belonged in different "new" ones, and moving hundreds of posts would have been a pain...
Basically we're trying to turn a negative (the clean sweep) into a positive (well, it may have needed a bit of cleaning)