Hey guys and gals, let's be honest. Forums suck. If you want to increase the number of aficionados in your crew who want to get involved and have a skill to offer - you've got to offer a better system of information exchange than these forums. These are a GREAT source of information but at GREAT cost to an individual user's time at finding it. I am a computer scientist, but I don't know what a "sticky" is, and these forums exist a world apart. I apologize in that I have no solution to offer, but I ask sincerely.... can there be a better way to get the information out in a searchable manner in a world where such a large disparity in digital knowledge exists? There is curiosity abound, people who want to know these things of all ages, but we need to work together to develop a better way to build, search, and distribute it... than these forums...
Just a thought for the wiser than I.....
That's exactly why I compiled this guide. You're right that there are definitely better ways: unfortunately, the limiting factors are interest and cost. The ideal solution would be for somebody with the passion to keep up on things to make a website where the needed information is easy to navigate. However, as I'm sure you know, maintaining a website takes time and costs hosting fees. Staying on top of all of the developments and curating an always up-to-date guide would be quite time-consuming, because all of the information is primarily first disseminated through these forums. The other factor - interest - is a killer. Most people use a given model of smartphone for, what, 1-3 years?... and then have zero interest in keeping up with developments on phones they no longer use. You can see the aftermath of this: there are several threads (some of them stickies) that claim to be THE guide (to rooting, or whatever), and this was true at the time they were written, but then the writer moved on to other things and their thread became obsolete. My guide is, currently, the most comprehensive, but I have not ventured into Android 6+, and I may not even do so. Sooner or later I, too, will drop off the radar of the Galaxy S5 forum...
By the way, the forum posts deemed most useful are made "sticky" by a moderator. This means they always stay at the top of the list of threads rather than being buried by newer posts (which are always sorted in descending order by date of the most recent post). Stickied threads have a thumb-tack icon next to them. When you go to a topical forum seeking information, you should always read the stickies because in many cases your question will already have been answered there. You incur the wrath of angry nerds by joining the long conga line of new users who join a forum daily and echo the same questions as hundreds of others before them.
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