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Originally Posted by PeterT
Nick and John; I've been suggesting to the community for a long time that the real solution to this issue is to stop relying on forum posts, but rather to create and maintain MobileRead wiki pages. They have the benefit that anyone can edit pages, not just the original poster.
However no one seems to show any interest  |
I think it is an interesting idea.. For me I never open a topic about a firmware, due to time difference I mostly discover there is a new one when I am home from work,and English isn't my language, so I often write things to literally and therefore misunderstood like the word "demanding" but really, if there is a new firmware release I take a subscription, wait a couple of days so I can see what new problems are introduced (sigh..) and I do the same for the corresponding patch topic, and I have a subscription to the basic new firmware topic maintained by Murgh, if someone start a new one, then there are 4 topics to follow, because if you don't, people place important information and you missed it, or you ask a question and it will be answered with, that is already explained there, I do understand why John want to start his own project, but if things are scattered across 4 topics for every firmware I am afraid that it will be a mess, but with a wiki there are sometimes people angry because others are changing their original posts, and you get similar discussions at different places.. It worked well the way it does, only it demands that you read all off the topic.. When placing summary in new topics there will always be people who changing discussion to the new one.. Goodwill, isn't always a good motivation.. Again time will tell but I am not gonna follow 4 different topics and or a wiki, for a firmware that changes every 4 weeks, that is simple not manageable...