I just want to pipe up as a member of the current not-dead-yet council that I think that the belief that talk.maemo.org changed completely when the flood of N900 users came is complete and utter bullsh*t.

Talk really hasn't changed a whole lot. It has always been very end-user oriented. But, like anyone who has imbibed a great deal in a short time, Talk is just more itself than ever before. This is like Talk with no inhibitions