I'm not sure what reasons Washu provided, but we did try having a hardware board a while back for at least a year.

It was very low traffic, meaning that the few topics that were started over time got very few responses and members wanted to post in the higher-traffic lounge forum instead. I don't think we're getting more discussions of this than we were at that time, and they certainly aren't drowning out other discussions there -- in fact, taking them away would make the lounge itself pretty quiet as well.

We're unlikely to add a new forum without a reasonable amount of discussion of the topic in question and a compelling reason to do so.

I'm the one who proposed the hardware board originally, after a flurry of hardware-related posts started to choke the Lounge a little bit. As the forum turned out to be low traffic and the same choking hasn't happened, it doesn't seem to really be needed.