Maybe it's a good idea to open a new thread for each release, and in the first post list the problems users encounter (brief) accompanied with the solution. This would make the forum much more professional looking and user friendly. Now everyting is "thrown" in one big thread, making it impossible to create any sort of structure and therefore people constantly asking the same questions over and over again.
I used to do this but people mix issues in threads. There is a sticky post with a request to create a new thread for every issue but most people don't care to read and/or apply the request.
For example: it took a VERY long time before the missing framedriver issue with s912 soc's was explained in a decent way . Now it finally got it's own thread. Even when the alpha s912 firmware was release, there still wasnt any explanation and people where thinking the framebuffer driver was found. Only after some time it was added to the first post that this wasnt the case and a brief explanation was added to this first post. Now finally things are clear for most users.
This is not true. From the very first build I put the information about missing fbdev driver for S912 in the first post. Before I published my first build (after LOTS of experimenting and work) there was a thread that explained again and again why there was no build for S912: thread-1653.html
And lots of people have daytime responsibilities and simply dont have the time to go through hunderds of forum pages.
Please remember that developers are also people with daytime jobs and families, they also commit their time to development.
I have to agree that the search engine is not very friendly, let's hope it changes when the forum software is upgraded this weekend.