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Originally Posted by John F
Just a suggestion: maybe the people who start the threads could be a little more helpful and consolidate things into the first post? Looking at the first page of this thread, nothing stood out as new features.
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Not going to happen.
The general sequence of events when a new firmware version is released is:
- Kobo releases the firmware
- Someone notices and posts, either in the Direct Links to Kobo Firmware thread, the now previous version's discussion thread, or they create a thread for the new release.
- At some point, if the thread doesn't exist, someone creates the discussion thread.
I maintain the
Direct Links to Kobo Firmware thread. When I see a notice that the new version is available, I grab the firmware, and update the first post of that thread. This takes at least an hour and many edits. I'm not paid for my efforts. I started doing it because of the problems I was having with Kobo's firmware at the time (Kobo really, really screwed over the Australian devices). Now I maintain it out of inertia.
Then, if it doesn't exist yet, I create the new version's discussion thread.
It usually takes a short while for someone who knows anything about the new release to post about what's in the new release. Usually this is Davidfor, who is also in Australia, so depending on when the release is noticed, this can take up to a day, depending on the time zones.
Of course, we could probably arrange for the first post of the discussion thread to contain actual information about the changes in a release, if Kobo released this information. Usually Kobo's release information is, not to mince words, terse. Very terse. Extremely terse. If they release any info at all.
And nothing is stopping you from creating a thread, and maintaining the first post with everything that is known about a release. It's a lot of work. If the people here find value in it, they will use that thread to discuss the release.
So, until you actually put in any effort, you shouldn't be criticising the lack of such effort on everyone else's part.