[HTC Amaze 4G] rbross3030:
I'd love to see the same thing, thank god I'm on salary so someone else is paying for me to read all 4,000 posts in this thread and the thousands of posts in other threads in order to stay up on what's what here. This has been asked before to which the general consensus is usually something along the lines of "we'd rather see devs spend their time working on bugs than updating posts."

I totally agree with you but considering everything the devs do is on their time and is indeed a huge service to us, I'm in no position to argue. Concise documentation is a beautiful thing though and if anyone is going to encourage it it should probably be the forum moderators.

It's funny because many are irritated when the same 5 questions get asked over and over again, kindly or unkindly referring to the search function. But searching through 4,000 posts (and that's just 1 thread, there's also CM10.1 and both of their respective bug threads) for a vague keyword like "audio" when it could easily be addressed on the first post does indeed suck. It has taken me weeks of reading bits and pieces from sports, eclipse, dcacklam et al from all sorts of threads to figure out what's what in the Amaze dev scene, along with flashing and testing nearly every posted ROM for days each to really sort it all out. Maybe I'm wrong but it seems like a lot of seniors here would prefer that the greenhorns go through the ringers and take the time to do so rather than having it handed to them on a silver platter, and I suppose I really can't blame them. I can certainly say that when I first started coming here, by doing a LOT of reading and flashing myself rather than having it all spelled out for me (hence my low post count/high level of lurking), I have learned far more than I would have otherwise. But for those of us who already have a comfortable idea of how this all works and are just stopping by every few weeks to track updates & milestones, that is, us "casual flashers," if you will, the underwhelming amount of documentation here is pretty discouraging, and some of those who frequent the forum every day seem to have a tough time understanding this challenge from this perspective.

Now, I could create a new thread that attempts to track all changes and releases to current & future ROMs, but who am I to promise I'll be around for any length of time? I love this phone and am super grateful that the devs have done what the have to mitigate the disappointing experience that has been owning a great piece of hardware marred by the poor decisions of HTC in many regards, but you can already find plenty of outdated similar posts with the same intent from members that probably got new phones and no longer give a rat's ass :laugh: and I can almost guarantee that the next time I'm drunk enough to shatter the glass on this phone I probably wont craigslist another. In fact, I'll probably never buy another phone based on hardware specs alone thinking I can just flash my way out of software shortcomings. Big phones have big pots for the devs and that's definitely something to take into consideration when picking a phone. That and HTC has made this phone a real ***** to dev for, or as some devs have put it, "a fun challenge" (you guys kick ass).

TL;DR: lol i dunno