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Well, I understand your point Matthew. Yes, often the post are on the geekier side and may not be related to Fedora project as such, but most of them are about Linux in general and day to day problems/solutions in a Linux user's life. I am not aware of the intentions behind the Planet Fedora aggregator's invention but if I am not wrong, all the blog posts that appear on it are from Fedora contributors only, from some project or other. Many times these posts are very informative and solve highly technical problems or provide way around some tricky situations based on real life experiences. So Planet Fedora is important for me personally, both as a user and as a developer. Going to it directly by entering the URL is ok but is a additional step.<BR>
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What you are saying about the start page is correct and yes, it should cater to the wider audience as much as possible. What I think can be done at least is since the new UI has tabs on top, another tab can be added that points to the planet fedora aggregator. It still won't be that useful but at least it won't be completely gone from the page. I think its an important part of it and I am sure there will be few other also, if not many, who developed a habit of checking it from start page over time like me. <BR>
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I will do some more thinking on it and if I come up with some subtle design changes that can incorporate planet Fedora links without actually changing the new design language and audience view of the page, I will surely share it. In that case, with whom can I share these?<BR>
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On Tue, 2015-02-17 at 11:54 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
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On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:07:37AM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> > Hope its the right place to discuss this. Recently, during the redesign</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> > of the start.fedoraproject.org page, the links to updated/new posts from</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> > planet.fedoraproject.org were removed. Any specific reason for this?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> Often, those posts were not Fedora related, and generally out of our</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> control. I'm glad you found them usually interesting — that's valuable</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> feedback.</FONT>
After some coffee, I should add some more explanation. Fedora has many
times more users than developers, and the start page should primarily
appeal to that wider audience. Most of the content on the planet — even
that which is properly Fedora-related — is pretty highly tilted towards
the geekier contributor side. There's nothing wrong with that, but it
can be overwhelming. So, the goal with the Magazine is to be more
user-focused (although there's still a lot of contributor-focused stuff
mixed in as well; we're still working on the balance).
If you're deeply involved and want the firehose,
<A HREF="http://planet.fedoraproject.org">http://planet.fedoraproject.org</A> is there. If *you'd* like to contribute
user-focused content (even reposting from your blog, or whatever), see
<<A HREF="https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/52782/how-do-i-contribute-to-fedora-magazine/?answer=52786#post-id-52786">https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/52782/how-do-i-contribute-to-fedora-magazine/?answer=52786#post-id-52786</A>>
There's also value in having users aware of the wider community and
drawing them in, so, again... we're working out the balance, and
everyone's help figuring that out is welcome.
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