There was an extremely annoying bug with the fireboard component. Where any forum which had a child forum would always seem empty because no child board information was being displayed. I added custom queries to count the topics and replies in the chid boards and display emm beside the child board title on the forum index.

In the archive are 2 files. The step by step guide with copy and paste instructions and the actual listcat.php file. the listcat.php file to apply the fix to is located in components/com_fireboard/template/default 

 Fireboard is truely a wonderful component hope it continues to develop well.