Who volunteers writing a sticky thread for the N900 forum?
 

Hi, the N900 forum would benefit from a sticky post telling people where to find the appropriate forums.

Liknk to FAQ and the amazing power search (have youu tried it?)?

Anything purely relating to buy the N900, when it will arrive, prices, data plans, etc goes to Buy & Sell.

There is a forum exclusively for Accessories.

Anything related with preinstalled software, how tos, problems etc goes to Maemo 5.

Anything related with installable apps goes to Applications or its subforums (Multimedia, Games).

In the past we have done a technical distinction between platform and applications, but the border is not always clear even for technical people, even less for many newcomers.

Re: Who volunteers writing a sticky thread for the N900 forum?
 

Count me in

Re: Who volunteers writing a sticky thread for the N900 forum?
 

Happy to help, I'm currently working on the email options on the wiki

Re: Who volunteers writing a sticky thread for the N900 forum?
 

Well, just go ahead. :)

You can look at the sticky thread in the General forum for reference..

Re: Who volunteers writing a sticky thread for the N900 forum?
 

OK Will hack later on today

Re: Who volunteers writing a sticky thread for the N900 forum?
 

more then happy to help out 2moro.
sounds like a good idea.

Re: Who volunteers writing a sticky thread for the N900 forum?
 

Any progress? This is more of a one wo/man task done in 30 minutes at most.

If you are reading this and you have 30 minutes you can Just Do It.

Re: Who volunteers writing a sticky thread for the N900 forum?
 

Ahhhh Quim..... the lord of all hope :) - its 9:15 on a Sunday morning, and i have a glorious hangover.. :) - and yesterday i was out gallivanting to get said glorious hangover...

If no-one else has started i will give it a go in about 30 minutes (Roughly estimated time for a shower & Ciggy @ Hangover speed)

Re: Who volunteers writing a sticky thread for the N900 forum?
 

Meet me on PM - I'm sober, not hung over and got a morning off Church. We'll sort it together!

Re: Who volunteers writing a sticky thread for the N900 forum?
 

I agree with you that a sticky is good by making it easy for newcomers to post. However I must say that the existing structure in this forum is not particularily user friendly for newcomers.

As a relatively new user I remember entering this forum and trying to find the N900 forum, as this was the device I was interested in.

As a potential buyer of an N900 I would like to find EVERYTHING related to that device in one place, whether hardware related, software related, user experience, pricing, delivery experiences etc.

As a new user I'm interested in finding out about the N900 as a whole package. Dividing it up makes finding relevant information pertaining to the N900 as a whole package harder to find for a new user.

Sometimes dividing it up makes it totally artificial.

Let's take the recent random shut downs on the N900. Is that a hardware or software related issue? Should that go in the hardware related N900 thread or in the software related Maemo5 thread? It may take a couple of hundred posts to identify the problem.

Furthermore regarding the Buy & Sell. I know it says the Buy & Sell is for "pre-purchase questions". However, Buy & Sell in most forums would refer to a second hand market. I find it unlikely a newcomer would go there to search for current availability of the N900 in the Nokia on-line store, or the delays at Dell etc.

For me when I first entered Maemo.org it simply offered too much information, and too many bewildering options. I just wanted to know about the N900.

At the time I didn't know what Maemo5 had to do with anything, and it took a while to understand the N900 runs Maemo5, and that is currently the only device running that OS.

To my mind, make it easier for newbies. They will be device centric. Keep a general heading "N900" and then sub forums "Operating System Maemo5", "Software Applications" "Buying the N900" etc. This would make a lot of sense.

If that requires too much work, or is not possible for technical reasons, or show too many other negative side effects, at the very least this forum could be made more user friendly by adding a tagline to some of the main headings, e.g. OS/Platform Maemo5 - and then list the devices that runs this OS N900 (the only one at the moment)

Re: Who volunteers writing a sticky thread for the N900 forum?
 

could not figure out how to make a thread sticky

Re: Who volunteers writing a sticky thread for the N900 forum?
 

Noobmonkey and I have put something togather: he's posting it. Please can a mod sticky it for us (with any alterations as needed)


Edit: please sticky this http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=36978

Thanks
K

Re: Who volunteers writing a sticky thread for the N900 forum?
 

Haven't read the above yet - will looky in a sec. (Edit, did a post get deleted, it vanished?!?! lol) (Double edit - doh - everyone else posted and pushed me to a new page lol!)

A huuuuge thankyou to Kathy for kicking the post going :)
Quim - sticky thread here

Re: Who volunteers writing a sticky thread for the N900 forum?
 

Great, thanks. The thread is now sticky and doesn't allow further posts.

Gadgety, we had a problem that requirede at least a short term solution: the N900 was becoming quite unmaneagable and most newcomers were not aware about the few rules agreed in this forum.

Now we can discuss further.

Re: Who volunteers writing a sticky thread for the N900 forum?
 

On the other hand it would be good to know whether you consider useful the effort of moving threads from the N900 forum to more appropriate destinations. Otherwise there are other tasks where to piut the time.

Re: Who volunteers writing a sticky thread for the N900 forum?
 

Hehe - can never have enough shufflers/mods :) - when it is done corretcly anyway :)

Q - your PM's are turned off, i assume on purpose - needed a quick change to the post - so i sent in a flag request - not sure if that was the right thing to do?

Re: Who volunteers writing a sticky thread for the N900 forum?
 

noobmonkey: you can edit your own post, don't you? :)

Re: Who volunteers writing a sticky thread for the N900 forum?
 

hehe i know i have many a blonde moment - but i have also run 4 vbulletin forums :)

The post has been closed with no edit rights for me, and I'm assuming that means all non mods... :( - I've double, triple and quadruple checked :( - only get a big closed sign :(
(Sexy closed sign though hehehe)

I'm not being lazy, honest :) :) :) :)

Re: Who volunteers writing a sticky thread for the N900 forum?
 

Changes made, then.