Comments on: Ausdroid Forums – should they stay or should they go?

By: Phil Tann

Phil Tann — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 04:07:00 +0000

I just leave my VPS logged into IRC.

By: Peter Graham

Peter Graham — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 06:41:00 +0000

As one of the forum mods over the last couple of weeks it became a daily job deleting spam bots and their posts .. but aside from that issue I think the forums are a really good part of Ausdroid and obviously they need a bit more of a push from the admins on the mainpage. I would also suggest either upgrading the software to avoid all the spam bots or make it so that new members are only approved by mods and admins .. that would keep a lot of the riff raff out.

So yeah, I’d like to see the forums stay. I believe they could really become a great part of the Australian android community.

By: Stephen Reeves

Stephen Reeves — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 06:33:00 +0000

Yeah, I just had to say, that I prefer the Whirlpool forums for this subject, and I can see I’m not alone. I do use Ausdroid as my main source of (Australian) Android news though.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 05:59:00 +0000

Hang out on IRC all the time and usually there’s just me and ‘PryMaL’ doing nothing much in there.

By: Evan Whiteside

Evan Whiteside — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 05:24:00 +0000

I agree with Stinky (ha)
The forums weren’t really made known to most users.

XDA doesn’t help casual Australian users find out information about our locally compatible roms very easily.

Whirlpool doesn’t allow sales.

If you turned the forums into more of a discussion/marketplace. With more relevance to your articles and maybe some other features, such as getting some android developers on to answer questions etc. It would be a real site feature.

By: lobie81

lobie81 — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 05:20:00 +0000

Whirlpool already offers that with a much larger user base than Ausdroid…

By: lobie81

lobie81 — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 05:19:00 +0000

I rarely go anywhere apart from Whirlpool or XDA for my Android forum needs. WP is already Australian based and has much higher participation than the Ausdroid forums.

Why don’t you focus on the IRC chat instead? You could have chat hangouts during launches and events.

By: Greg McPherson

Greg McPherson — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 05:06:00 +0000

Get a good healthy commenting culture going on the site’s posts. That’s where the action is.

By: David Clarke

David Clarke — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 04:51:00 +0000

A dedicated Marketplace could be handy.. Agree

By: David Clarke

David Clarke — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 04:51:00 +0000

Oh yeah, don’t forget Whirlpool too!

By: George

George — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 04:50:00 +0000

The one thing I liked about the forum was the buy/sell – because WP does not allow it, otherwise everything else can be on WP

By: David Clarke

David Clarke — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 04:50:00 +0000

Piss them off, concentrate on other stuff. Between And Auth, And Central and XDA, why duplicate stuff here? Site is great, put your effort into that =]

By: skobiyan

skobiyan — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 04:47:00 +0000

Perhaps the time and effort that went into into maintaining the forums could go into ensuring podcasts / vodcasts / etc are available for download / later viewing sooner than is currently the case. I love the show y’all make, but can never listen live, due to real life stuff. #justsaying

Love the site guys!