[General Topics] quicksite:
I don't know exactly how to answer that.

In the context of XDA-developers, I guess the answer would be yes.

In the context of the touchscreen industry, not at all.

Is it sadly way late?

Absolutely.

Could I continue to use help?

Absolutely.

You know what's help it up for months? Very simple.

The nominations are SO INCOMPLETE as to make it not fair. That coupled with MY NOT KNOWING who and how to fill in the blanks.

The remedy has been so so easy for months. So easy a blind man could see. I've asked. I don't know how many times I've asked. I can't force. This is volunteerism. Nobody owes me anything.

Have people volunteered?

You have, and I thank you so much for that.

Very simple: A post gets made to every PHONE Forum in the window mobiles section. Boom -- would have been done in February.

This way, everyone who skips the general forum and goes straight to their phone's forum -- exactly what *I* do -- and did for my T-mobile MDA, my t-mobile WING, my HTC-Hero, and now for my HTC_Desire--- and any normal usage pattern would be for vast majority of site users --- Nobody has a need to go to the general forum. I would bet anyone here $1000 that if polled users, REGULAR USERS, 90% of the time they ONLY COME to xda as a TOPIC REPLY NOTIFICATION via email to a THREAD they specifically are interested in IN THEIR PHONE FORUM, about THEIR PHONE.

So... Is it cold? Sure. Yes. it's cold. There. Happy?

It's been a mixed bag here. Like everyone I work long hours on a job. This has been a passion project, I wanted to -- and still intend to -- and absolutely WILL -- do it right.

STAFF? zero?

Braodcast to every forum here to get real help? none.

Who at XDA as a user knows about it amongst the 2 million registrants or daily 100,000 unique users? You know who? A small small small sliver of people who cross paths with the GENERAL forum at XDA.

What percentage is that?

(A) beginner beginners, and beginner beginners don't have the knowledge set to be feeding back who were the great ROM developers for the Raphael.

Meanwhile

(B) The people who DON'T and have not seen it -- and thus don't even know such a thing exists -- and i say this with great resepct for, and deep appreciation for XDA's making a sticky thread here -- generally don't have the least interest or care in the world for THIS GENERAL FORUM. Not why they're here. Not why they came to XDA. Most are not here just to hang out and see what's up. They's here for THEIR phones.

(C) So if i would hazard a guess, I would say, of the average unique 100,000 users who log on per day, lucky if more than 1000 people know of "what is a devvy?" "what is the devvy?"... aka less than 1%

So there is no surprise that so many phones have ZERO nominations for roms.

ANSWERS & ACTIONS:

I have considered. Well. Just go with what I have and just nix those Phones not represented. It;s not fair. It's not scientific. It's totally random. But okay, since it's cold, sure. Okay. maybe it's too late. But sure why not.

What I was trying to do, but one person doesn;t go a very long way when you've only got a few hours per day and this isn;t the only thing on your plate. --- was to try to reframe WINDOWS MOBILE as a fairwell to the platform overall. Because it will be over now. And with Windoiws Phone 7, all the stuff olliepro did, and mort, and A_C, and hundreds of others people -- poof -- it's already now obsolete in a go forward world.

And my focus going forward will be Android and Blackberry and Palm and iPhone. I have no idea where WIndows Phone 7 will play out.

So, okay, this is about the last straw..

I can just use what I have, cut it down firther, throw out all the partial data where there are no competitorts because no one turned in any data -- only becasue those people didn;t know it existed -- and the only reason they didn;t know it exusted is because in THEIR FORUM, nobody told them

And MY FEAR was that, acting unilaterally, without the auspices of XDA mods, i;d be cited for SPAMMING -- but the need has been to post a DEVVYS INTRO POST IN EVERY WINODWS MOBILE PHONE FORUM ON THE SITE asking for nominatioins in all the 8-or 9 or 10 categories. It neverhad to be hard.

It just kind of ticks me off that you have the very communication tools right in front of us, and i asked the few volunteersd, would you do this (I didn't ask you, buty i did ask those 1 or 2 others) and apparently tis was too hard to do -- to get URLS to the forums for each phone, and just post the template message.

It's too late for that, not with messages like these which want to make it dead.

Well sorry it's not dead, but you can call it dead it you want. But it surely doesn;t make me happy.