Thread: Tablet Scene should be put out of its misery
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2009-03-30 , 05:27
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Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
Too bad. I thought account merging was the whole point of the procedure...? You'd register for the forum and then use this username/password to vote for a council or rate an application in the downloads section, all without opening yet another maemo account. It would have made everything there is on maemo.org so much more inviting.

(And I'd have hoped I could finally get rid of my two nicks and merge them to one... So I'll have to wait for that.)
Merging accounts through different services is a goal easier said than done (e.g. is Wikipedia still requesting new registration for each WikiMedia project? and they are dealing with instances of a same tool, while in ITt+maemo.org there are 6-7 different tools to merge).

Have a look at http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Single_sign-on & http://danielwilms.wordpress.com/200...-for-maemoorg/ for more details.

Originally Posted by SD69 View Post
And can there be talk about Krisse's tutorials? Is school.maemo.org still a possiblity? I would hate to see those go to waste.
Ask Krisse (I did, and she didn't seem too motivated) or make a proposal in a more appropriate thread (either the old one or a new one).

Going back to the topic, though...

Have you scanned http://www.tabletscene.com/ recently? It looks like a combination of recent spam + old threads + unanswered question. Yes, there are some exceptions but worth the site? I would simply remove it and link back to ITt. Any newbie will be 1001 better treated here then there these days.

Also let's be realistic: who is maintaining the site? It was started by Reggie and Krisse. Reggie is currently busy as hell and able to put a little time only here in ITt. Krisse is out of the loop. My instinc tell me that they will be back when a new device is announced but... why should we tie the closure of tablet scene with that probability. We better ask them now (I will do it).

We can also start by deleting the sticly thread in the Newbie forum: A website for Internet Tablet newbies. If a newbie is confused, having a Newbie forum apparently addressed + a newbie different site recommended but apparently abandoned is not going to help.
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