+1 (or more, if I'm permitted)

Look at the N900 forum here as an example. Consumers buy a box with "N900" printed on it. They then find a problem, discover a question, or think of an innovative idea, so they visit talk.maemo.org and post in the N900 forum. That's what was printed on the box, after all. Nine times out of ten though, they really want Maemo 5 or some other forum.

That's no problem here. I just bump the thread over to the correct place and leave a temporary redirect behind. The move is nearly invisible to the poster and other users of the site.

Once forums are split out to different servers and domains though, such transparent moves become impossible. "Thread closed. Go elsewhere," is a nasty bucket of cold water to dump on a potential contributor. Heck, RESOLVED MOVED to Brainstorm continues to cause hard feelings, and that's not even pushing issues and their reporters off to another community, just another service within one community.

Asking new community members to distinguish between hardware and first-party software has been difficult enough here on Talk. I can't see too many new users or developers immediately being able to trace that twisty line of separation between MeeGo software and the vendor-specific bits that run atop and along side it.

Sure, fan sites dedicated to specific categories of MeeGo devices will spring up. maemo.org doesn't cover every Maemo need, and I don't expect MeeGo.com to either. MeeGo.com's sub-forum for, say, the Nokia N900+2 might not be the biggest or most popular, but offering it, rather than a shove out the door, is the important part. Palm OS-focused sites managed to offer sub-forums for the products of diverse manufacturers, and I think MeeGo.com can too.