[Meego-community] Forum Structure

[Graham Cobb]

On Friday 19 March 2010 00:15:33 Robin Burchell wrote:
> > It's very hard for any one person to follow anything on Talk already,
> > but then that's not really the role of forums. It's the ultimate
> > crowd-sourcing, ask a question & someone is bound to answer it, but it
> > might not be the right answer. There are swarm points which various
> > "popular thread" features keep easy to find, and outside of this people
> > tend to treat Talk a bit like Twitter - it's impossible to follow
> > everything, so don't try.
>
> Random thought on this, though it's probably best for a new thread,
> and this question is primarily for Reggie...
>
> Currently, at least I keep an overview of what is going on by the
> latest posts on TMO. This is however (as Dave so eloquently points out
> above) trying to catch water in a sieve at best. I wonder whether a
> better feature than latest posts would be 'hot topics', calculated
> based on a ratio of most frequent posts, dashed in with some factor of
> how old the topic is so that gradually (no matter how hot it is for a
> few days) a topic will sink back down unless it gets a huge burst of
> activity.

Interesting idea.  I track the Maemo forums by having a daily notification 
email set up for three of the forums (Community, Development and Fremantle), 
which notifies me of new and changed topics.  I then subscribe (normally with 
an immediate notification email) to any topics I want to track or in which I 
participate.  For me, this means that it is useful to have different forums 
for different topics so I can choose not to even receive notifications about 
those.

How do others handle tracking the Maemo forums?

Graham