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 _______________________________________________ Meego-community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-community
