Hmmm I posted a thread a couple of days ago querying whether the n900 forum needed splitting into some sub-fora. To be honest, I think the whole 'restructuring' idea might help.

It's a bit of a mad-house down there, in a forum under a heading 'hardware' you have a lot of threads about shipping/customer services/Nokia in amongst threads on tips and tricks and first impressions and genuine hardware threads about microphones and batteries. How many of those threads actually belong in the 'Fremantle' forum? How many should be 'off topic'? But there's no point in moving them: the new folks are seeing "n900 forum" and not really going anywhere else. They'd just start more.

Add to that the fact that a high proportion of these posters are new arrivals - some bringing high levels of skill and knowledge, some bringing nothing more than a sense of excitment, and a few carrying a sense of entitlement - it makes the forum a little crazy, and I get the impression that some of the longer-standing members are... avoiding it. Which is a shame, as we could use more wise heads and great knowledge in there. A HUGE THANKS to the people who have waded through to find the posts about real issues and responded. Believe me, it is appreciated.

I've heard the stuff about restructuring, and I wondered whether something as simple as vBulletin's 'sub forum' system would help. I would also suggest that all threads in apps/media/games should carry a title which includes maemo version.

There have been a few fights (the maemo.org = competition thread was one such - you know the one I mean ) but on the whole we're still afloat.

In a way I'd like to turn it back to the community: how do the long-standing members feel? How do the n800, n810 users feel? How is the 'noise to signal' ratio for them? I suspect the restructuing thread is the answer to that.