The problem is the unwillingness of moderators to create new sections (or just their lack of time to do it). Moving stuff around irrelevant sections won't make it any better until relevant sections are created. As @Creamy Goodness said, it should take a few clicks. But we can't do it.

Let's make it simpler. Who on the forum has the authority to do it?

It's not the answer you want, but isn't "Competitors" or "Alternatives" the right sections?

Alternatives:
Other operating systems powering Maemo compatible devices e.g. Mer, Debian, Android, Ubuntu, Palm (GarnetVM)...

Competitors:
Similar mobile devices shipping with alternative operating systems.

Sometimes I go into Alternatives to read some threads there, but Competitors doesn't interest me. Personally, I don't care if new sections get created, I probably won't read them that often. I like the idea of creating some sections on a "let's see how much traffic they get" basis, but it's always harder to take something away than to not give it in the first place, and there's not much difference between trying it out, or just putting the threads where they belong (Competitors or Alternatives) until there's significant mass and some shipping hardware/software.

I also think it's not a bad idea to wait until migration is FULLY complete and everything is working before making any changes. There are parts of TMO that are still not working as we can see (email).

And as far as authority goes, this is a community site, run by the community. Perhaps some sort of a poll?

If the idea is to make fans/supporters of other systems more welcome here, than specific sections will help accomplish that, imo.

Sorry for the OT but is your email still not working? I thought it resumed working 2-4 days ago; if it isn't please report on the service downtime thread. Thanks!

@thedead1440: Those sections aren't contained enough and too confusing to match exactly to dedicated OSes. That's why threads appear all around. I still don't get why someone finds a problem in creating dedicated subforums.

I can make a poll - it might be helpful.

This is a supplementary thread for "Restructuring the forum". Please vote here and continue the main discussion in that thread.

Related poll: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=88790

So will we have a windows subforum?

When did I say anything against adding a section? I was asking shawnjefferson about email not working on TMO... I think you got the wrong idea

@thedead1440: Sorry, it was wrong reply I meant to address it to shawnjefferson.

Who cares about a poll, lets just do this already, some of the layouts suggested are very good/reasonable*, we don't have to spread it too wide/thin for starters.
We can just start with just Maemo 4-6x, the MeR derivatives, & maybe Ubuntu/BBX....
We're not talking about a huge structural change here (at least yet), this is just about ensuring that at least some of the mind-share remains centred at maemo.org.
Ofc if it's too tricky to do at this point in the migration, then ofc lets wait until that passes, that's really only known by those specifically involved in it...

NITdroid, GarnetVM, Debian Chroot etc. could be in "Alternatives", as none are tightly focused/geared around the Qt biosphere like the aforementioned.
Further down the track there could even be a dedicated HTML5 section that has these sub-forums: Tizen, FFOS, OpenWebOS etc, maybe they could start-off in the "Alternatives" section.
But the immediate focus IMO should be around Maemo 4-6x, MeR derivatives, & maybe Ubuntu/BBX, & not just in the forum, it should expand to beyond that eventually.
"Competitors" would be anything not in the main sections/sub-forums or Alternatives: i.e. WP, Android, iOS, BBX (if assessed as not subtle for the other sections), Symbian etc.

*we could also get some ides perhaps from XDA's structure/layout.