Oh my gosh, my favorite button was broken and I didn’t even notice.
It turns out they added a new feature. We can now exclude forums from the active list. But they all defaulted to off so I had to go set all the forums so they would display under View active topics.
Oh, I see now. I thought you meant that *each of us* have to go to our personal settings to add all the forums. Clearly you meant that only YOU had to set some option once for the entire system.