I still think there should be a generic aspect to the first section or three, with a primary purpose being to engage visitors at a high level and secondary purpose being routing to those specific sections. Again, I think the filter analogy works well here.

Remember, a forum appears to have 2 dimensions but there are actually 3, and 4 if you consider time.

Sweet. So what you're saying is that the N900 will run Maemo 6?

Hehe.

I agree that more of a hierarchy would be good. The problem is that there is some cross-hierarchy going on with devices, and one would hope there's more of it in the future.

...which validates the filtering/routing approach.

That's not a problem, it's a creative challenge.

I like DaveP1's suggestion in general, namely keeping the hardware releases "bracketed" in with the related OS releases. If/when other devices come out that use Maemo 5, they can be placed within the Maemo 5 section.

I guess things will get tricky if/when the N900 is upgradeable to Maemo 6, but things can be reorganised if that happens. Until then, at the moment there's pretty much a one-to-one mapping between hardware and OS version.

You're right. I got my Maemos wrong.

I blame wishful thinking and/or old age.

The more I think about this, the more I suspect there is a useful alternative: maybe the solution to this poll's concern is to simply make the link to the Community talk section very prominent on the Community page.

That said, I still think we need to work on routing.

If you want users to use more specific sub-forum where their post belongs you should make it harder for them to post in General, or expect to do moderation from General to the correct forum.

Exactly. Moving General to the end of the list of active forums encourages users to at least page through all the forums they should be using before they get to it. Especially on small devices, you may never notice there is a section below Talk.