[About XDA developers] addicus:
I can't lie. I would hate to see non HTC phones here. Not because I'm nostalgic or have a love fest with HTC itself, but because the people do make the forum and most of the people are not developers (like myself) and have no interest in working for their needed answers (unlike myself) and have no interest in helping others who are learning (unlike myself).

This goes back two years or so but when the Kaiser came out the whole place changed. Most people on the current technology is part of the "now" generation. They've never had to wait or work to solve problems. I'm not ragging them but technology has made the life of anyone under 22 much different than the lives of anyone over 22. There is a reason why the IPhone sold/sells so well. It was simple and gave people what they wanted now! It didn't need to have things that WM had for years because it looked good and made life easy.

This being a developers site at it's foundation (if the developers stopped this place goes to hell in a hand basket in under 4 seconds), it is based on people being curious, persistent, ingenious and creative. This means finding solutions to problems that seem as if no solution exists. What we found when the Kaiser came is the masses just wanted answers. They didn't want to read, to study, to learn or to do any of that and then teach. While grateful to get the information, most felt they were also entitled to this information and the solutions and ungrateful of all the hard work and precious time the developers do put into this.

Now you may be saying - "Why is he bringing up all this old stuff. STFU Addicus.". The answer is because history repeats itself, sometimes faster than expected and if we don't learn from the first occurrences we will see the same issues arrive. For example:

There is recent thread where people are demanding a Motorola Droid forum be created for them here. Amazingly enough most people responded they didn't know this site was HTC manufactured only support and that it shouldn't matter. The management should do it and do it now. A lot of the posts were polite just giving support to wanting a Droid forum, but many were nasty rants that included insulting language to the management who supply this site to all of us free of charge.

When you expand this site, you are opening the floodgates. We will get more developers and some great contributors, but we will get more ingrates and impatient, demanding members more than anything else. I hate to say all of this because I am a person who believes in progression and positive growth. Yet I see major issues arising once the floodgates open. Not that this can't be overcome, but it should be known that growing pains will change this site and the way it is operated in the long run. This may be a good thing long term, but I don't feel as if it will be.

In closing - WM7 may do the same thing as opening the floodgates anyways since it is being built with the things the current generation is demanding. All I want is for this place to survive and thrive while maintaining it's high level of productivity, great atmosphere for learning and developing and remaining free. That's not too much is it?