Pine64 forum vs other channels

[gamerminstrel]

Hi,

this is not really specific to Mobian but I have noticed that activity on Pine64 forum for the Pinephone is very low. Instead if I look at the Telegram channel, it's quite active.

It's super easy to post on Telegram for example but then everything which is discussed there is not really useful: there is a lot of "noise" because all different channels are bridged together. OK I can still make a search but it's not as useful as what I read on the forum. The only way is to follow all the messages from the day to try to dig some useful information... I have other things to do than read all these messages, where most of them are useless.

I think this is in the end not in the interest of the project. Would there any way to improve this situation?


Thanks

I partially agree, it feels like the honeymoon phase of hype around the pinephone is absolutely dying down. However, the people that have been working from the start on the pinephone have never stopped, and progress is still happening. Getting support is kinda rough for even the most basic issues, and I've had the most luck actually filing bug reports directly to whatever project is crashing for things I need help with.

I think that the community (these forums) are going to be a slow burn until the software side of things is much closer to stable, and things will especially take off when it is easier for even beginner programmers to make apps for the pinephone. More/better software will bring in more users to help each other out in these forums.