01-23-2016, 06:40 PM
+1 on the moderator part. You may as well consider promoting "Ghost of Tom 'Skairkroh' Bule", he has been answering a lot of questions on your behalf to keep backers on track of their needs (in case you are wondering thats not me haha :-) )!
A couple suggestions for the forum in my opinion:
1) As a Comp. Science student aspirant on the subject of Arduinos and Rhasberry PIs and now Pine64, one suggestion would be to consider a more friendly section organization or simple description for the forum. As a rookie, I can barely understand what is the scope of the subjects. For example, I have best guesses on "Game Station Emulation". Is that for people interested on using their PineA64 as a replacement of a Videogame Console? If so, then maybe describing as a video game console section/ish is more familiar to the public in general who is just getting started on it thanks to the PineA64 affordable price.
2) What about breaking the "general discussion" board section to general sections for each different users group? For example, the $89 tier suggests this as to replace a laptop or ipad for the average user. I think they would have an easier time discussing general things to do with their PineA64 than say, trying to figure that out navigating over general discussions on board sections where people are talking about integration with Arduino or modules or, you know.
3) I am not terrible clear what is the difference between the Hardware Device and Peripheral board under 'Hardware' section versus the Keyboards and Remote section either since the later description mentions 'peripheral discussion' (?? seems to overlap with the other section). You may want to revise that!
4) On the Software section, consider replacing 'Android Related Discussion' to examples of what can be discussed. As a rookie, again, just staring at this doesn't tell me much. If you would mention what is out there, then I may find out things that haven't even been discussed on the forum yet. (this same statement applies to pretty much all descriptions that repeat the title and say 'section for <title here> discussion'.
In short: It would be great if the forum would be more welcoming to the newbies.
5) A dedicated board section for educational resources curated by users / and
6) dedicated board section tell us about their projects where people could open their threads and have discussion going of what they are up to on their PINEA64. would be great too (since we can subscribe to threads and this pretty much would be a "RSS Feed on news of your favorite project"! A user already started a thread on general discussion, but seeing this is one cool thing about PineA64 and those little folks, I guess it would even be great for you guys to sample later on a board section projects done on the PINEA64 for featuring from your users (and great for us to try new things!) :-)
A couple suggestions for the forum in my opinion:
1) As a Comp. Science student aspirant on the subject of Arduinos and Rhasberry PIs and now Pine64, one suggestion would be to consider a more friendly section organization or simple description for the forum. As a rookie, I can barely understand what is the scope of the subjects. For example, I have best guesses on "Game Station Emulation". Is that for people interested on using their PineA64 as a replacement of a Videogame Console? If so, then maybe describing as a video game console section/ish is more familiar to the public in general who is just getting started on it thanks to the PineA64 affordable price.
2) What about breaking the "general discussion" board section to general sections for each different users group? For example, the $89 tier suggests this as to replace a laptop or ipad for the average user. I think they would have an easier time discussing general things to do with their PineA64 than say, trying to figure that out navigating over general discussions on board sections where people are talking about integration with Arduino or modules or, you know.
3) I am not terrible clear what is the difference between the Hardware Device and Peripheral board under 'Hardware' section versus the Keyboards and Remote section either since the later description mentions 'peripheral discussion' (?? seems to overlap with the other section). You may want to revise that!
4) On the Software section, consider replacing 'Android Related Discussion' to examples of what can be discussed. As a rookie, again, just staring at this doesn't tell me much. If you would mention what is out there, then I may find out things that haven't even been discussed on the forum yet. (this same statement applies to pretty much all descriptions that repeat the title and say 'section for <title here> discussion'.
In short: It would be great if the forum would be more welcoming to the newbies.
5) A dedicated board section for educational resources curated by users / and
6) dedicated board section tell us about their projects where people could open their threads and have discussion going of what they are up to on their PINEA64. would be great too (since we can subscribe to threads and this pretty much would be a "RSS Feed on news of your favorite project"! A user already started a thread on general discussion, but seeing this is one cool thing about PineA64 and those little folks, I guess it would even be great for you guys to sample later on a board section projects done on the PINEA64 for featuring from your users (and great for us to try new things!) :-)