A thought occurred to me here while just browsing the forums.
If it doesn't already exist, I'm wondering how many senior members as well as new members might be interested in having a place where live dialog could be done. Many a time I could see threads and posts by people looking for help or just making a simple query out of curiosity waited days or weeks before seeing a resolve or no answer at all on ones which the answer was easy. I've taken a few that looked like no answers that I was reasonably sure I was correct and posted an answer to and thusly those people probably at least if they did get a resolve went away thinking at leastsomeone was watching wanting to share knowledge and experience. Now while I know it could not replace the overall usefullness of a forum, as with a forum the answer is only a search away. Some answers could be resolved without saying "search the forum" or more degrading and sarcastic answers like "Why don't people just learn to use google to search" coming from an It support background I understand there are people that don't fully understand search engines or forums but are very good at following step by step instruction or pointing directly to a link to a post on the forum.
So my idea is a reasonably setup irc server with channels named properly to reflect the device of interest "Blue Angel" "Hermes" "Elf" "Universal" etc. where a person could go for quick explination or direction. and talk live to other members.
also a general discussion area for say windows mobile in general, or even just general rant about achievements or development feedback and idea sharing with more experienced developers who want to join in.
I don't know if this I already available as I haven't seen any that relate to this forum. But I think it would be a good resoure to both new and more senior and experienced users to have available.
Please feel free to give your feedback on this idea, but as I know how forums can be.
Please keep your feedback constructive and professional like the intelligent and respectful people I've seen so far.
Thanks
Note: yes to answer this ahead of time I'm thinking about starting up something like this or would be willing to help set it up if the owners of this forum would be interested. feel free to move this thread to a more proper section as you see fit
You are right it requires a lot
All links pulled due to XDA Request after an XDA member complained I was only out for profits to a moderator on a few products I have. Due to the fact I link to a product or two and a few other things in many videos, I was asked to pull any content relating to this.
I will still be offering all this great material at my website. Just go to google and search for MobileTechVideos.
Hi Everyone,
This is basically a repost, but I thought it would be more relevant here than the other forum I posted in.
I keep pretty up to date on things about our phone, so a few days ago I started a twitter account to announce various kernel and ROM updates that get released on this site (and some others), and to also tweet about various interesting development stories I hear about.
At the moment I'm only posting about the more popular releases so as not to spam too much, but if you think I'm missing anything please let me know! Check it out:
[size=+1]@SGS2Kernels[/size]
I hope this can be useful to some people
Dude, firstly this is a dev forum for developments, not for people to plug their twitter pages. If people are not allowed and warned for creating question topics about developments in here what makes you think it ok to post a topic plugging a twitter page?
Second, why would we visit your twitter page when we can visit our own dev forum and get the news quicker and in more detail?
Third, why use twitter at all, a blog like wordpress would be much better for what you doing.
[Edit] Been moved to general now, so all ok.
TheATHEiST said:
Dude, firstly this is a dev forum for developments, not for people to plug their twitter pages. If people are not allowed and warned for creating question topics about developments in here what makes you think it ok to post a topic plugging a twitter page?
Second, why would we visit your twitter page when we can visit our own dev forum and get the news quicker and in more detail?
Third, why use twitter at all, a blog like wordpress would be much better for what you doing.
[Edit] Been moved to general now, so all ok.
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hi there,
regarding thread placement: i believed this "service" was pertinent exactly to people who read the development forums. i know if i read it i would use it (hence why i created it myself), and i personally don't read the general forums. sure it doesn't have any actual development creations, but it's directly related to the development topics in this forum. I think "you" are probably leaning a bit too much towards the letter of the law than the spririt, which is a shame.
regarding the rest of your angry post: my apologies, i failed to realise that you speak for everyone. i will start using the internet exactly as you suggest, again sorry for doing things wrong
Moderator Information,
Thread closed @mnorelli, welcome to XDA, just to let you know, you are not allowed to advertise like this on XDA.
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