What you say makes sense, but... Would not also other customers join in at some time, other than the Maemo owners? Meego will be the most advanced hand held devices on the market - would not a rather large section of this market be drawn to the new/changed forum? Like the majority on talk.maemo.org isn't 770 owners any more, the majority at talk.meego.org would not be Maemo owners.

Anyway, I agree with you on this being only a section of the target demographic, I just disagree on the idea that large communities works less well than small ones. I'm thinking Ubuntu must be one of the larger on the net. No one expects a single happy blob to keep track of all of the disgruntled N800 and N900 and N900.2 owners and their compaints... The only thing you'd really be doing is giving all the sub communities - that will exist nomatter what solution is chosen - a sense of belonging to a larger community at the same time.

You should be hogging as many users as possible and make them feel some pride in the umbrella they're under. Instead you want to divide and be conquered.