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2009-10-13 , 14:56
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There's been a great deal of discussion over reforming parts of maemo.org to better suit existing members and newcomers. The common concern is presenting a 'face' useful for all and providing conduits for differing needs and goals.

In the spirit of that, I propose we switch the order of General and Community sections. This will result in the following order for Talk:

Community
General
Off Topic

In my opinion this is a more functional order based on recent topics.

And yes, I realize that injecting an opinion makes this very unscientific, but it is after all a proposal, not a co-create session.
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Sounds good. Maybe i'm being overly optimistic, but i think there are going to be an order of magnitude more users here in the next year and the traffic is going to make things really hard to find. Is there a way to set it up so that there are "channels" in the active topics? N8x0 users are already getting flooded with Maemo5/N900 stuff. Add another device and it's going to get ridiculous. Plus, the noise from non-developers randomly chiming in in technical discussions is going to become a bigger problem. That leads to FUD and dilutes the useful comments. A default minimal subscription could be changed by going into the user CP.

Think of e.g. the recently released information on the Maemo6 UI.
 

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Good questions... no answer from me, sorry. But I do have ideas about ad hoc channelling, and they fit in with this proposal. More on that very soon.

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I think we should do away with General, altogether.

If we try hard enough, every thread should be able to be fit into

a specific OS
a specific device
a specific app
|||accessories
|||buy / sell
community
off-topic

General is full of... well, just about everything, including the kitchen-sink, much of which could be fit into another topic (kitchen sink would be off-topic, of course!)
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I actually see value in General still, and in fact that has been discussed here ad nauseum with reasonable consensus. I just think Community has shown increasing value over it.

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Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
I actually see value in General still, and in fact that has been discussed here ad nauseum with reasonable consensus. I just think Community has shown increasing value over it.

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I dunno, I see General as a place for people to start threads when they are too lazy to figure out a more appropriate sub-forum.

For instance, I see to my right on the Active Topics list, a thread in General called Super Tiny Keyboard. That would fit great in accessories, but I can see where logical processes like that could be too difficult for some people.
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This is not central to the poll but certainly related:

A forum should function as a hierarchal filter as much as possible, serving the majority need with the first section and narrowing down as it proceeds.

With this in mind, I believe Off Topic should appear dead LAST on the overall page. Let the targetted sections catch the specific subjects and all else fall into Off Topic. In that light, General could and probably should be next to last.

Regardless I still think Community should come first.
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Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
This is not central to the poll but certainly related:

A forum should function as a hierarchal filter as much as possible, serving the majority need with the first section and narrowing down as it proceeds.

With this in mind, I believe Off Topic should appear dead LAST on the overall page. Let the targetted sections catch the specific subjects and all else fall into Off Topic. In that light, General could and probably should be next to last.

Regardless I still think Community should come first.
Oh, for sure.

Just do it. You've got the juice now.

Just be prepared for My tablit keeps reboting HELP! to show up in Community
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This gets into the question of whether or not Maemo Talk wants to be a new N900 user destination. If so, Talk should be structured:

Talk
Newbie
General
Community
Off Topic
I think Community, while valuable, will be primarily of interest to those who contribute to the community rather than those who are seeking information from the community. I would also consider moving Off Topic out of Talk.

I would also suggest that a more comprehensive restructuring might be in order. To wit:

N900 - Maemo 6
N900 Newbie
N900 Hardware Users
N900 Software Users (Maemo 6 and Applications)
N900/Maemo 6 Developers
N800/N810 - Maemo 5
N800/N810 Newbie
N800 Hardware Users
N810 Hardware Users
N800/N810 Software Users (Maemo 5 and Applications)
N800/N810/Maemo 5 Developers
Talk
General
Community
Off Topic
Old
. . .
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#10
Originally Posted by JayOnThaBeat View Post
God, please no N800/N810 - Maemo 5.

There's enough of those posts already
I feel the same way about the N900 posts.

(At least until I get my own.)
 
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