By lifetime I mean the time period where the topic can be still be bumped before it is archived. I'm aware that it's possible to trick the forums into allowing you to bump old topics, but that is still besides the point. Let's not bring that up.
The files category gets very little posting activity and threads on the third page of Add-ons board (And much sooner on the other boards) are already archived. With this in mind, it would seem reasonable to increase the lifetime from two months to something in the realm of maybe six months. This makes it easier to revive topics for mods which are periodically updated, but usually not often enough to keep up with the two month thread lifetime (An example would be TotalRPG, which is close to being ready to update now but I can't bump the thread because it is now archived).
