I used to come to the forums twice a day, maybe more often, to click the "new posts" and see what was what. When the n900 news started to become real I visited more often to keep track, but then the forum degenerated into iphone-vs-nokia flames, wailings and moanings about deliveries and the endless speculation. Luckily this latter phase has begun to die out,

However, I think this cured me of my ITT (or is it TMO) forum "addiction"... I now only visit a couple of times a week, sometimes just once and when I click the "new posts" it takes a lot of effort to find something technically interesting. Mostly, I find I get more out of the planet maemo blog RSS feed, as interesting stuff percolates back to the top.

I was actually wondering if I was being a snob in thinking that this forum desperately needs moderation, or at least control over who can create new threads to try and improve the quality and reduce the noise.

If things don't actually get any better, and deteriorate to being no better than gsmarena, I will probably stop coming back.

I still use my n800 as much as ever. I don't know if/when I will buy an n900. Part of the appeal of the n810 and predecessors was the community, but now I'm sorry to say it's more of a rabble or mob.

OTOH, for a community to be successful, it needs new blood and new life. The Zaurus forums at oesf.org have been slowly dying for quite a while - lack of new devices for sale, and boredom and apathy amongst the users. There's a balance to be struck and I think this forum was once excellent, and I hope it will be again.