firefox start page no longer start.fpo -- do we want that?

[Matthew Miller]

In Rawhide and F21 alpha (and beta), the start page for firefox is now
about:newtab, with start.fedoraproject.org a pinned page.

> From the stats on Fedora Magazine — which means someone saw a headline
there and clicked — it's getting a _lot_ of use. Generating magazine
traffic is good, but even more importantly, this is one of our key
channels of communication to users.

Since the pinned page doesn't show you the new headlines, I'm concerned
that we're going to lose a lot from this switch. (We could of course
also pin the magazine directly, but, again, no headlines...)

Do we want to ask the package maintainer to revert the change? I know
there was some talk of updating the start.fpo design, but that seems
like a separate consideration.

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Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;
Fedora Project Leader

[Joe Brockmeier]

On 10/26/2014 12:38 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
>  Do we want to ask the package maintainer to revert the change? I
> know
>  there was some talk of updating the start.fpo design, but that seems
>  like a separate consideration. 
+1 to revert

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[Robert Mayr]

Il 26/ott/2014 11:38 "Matthew Miller" <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; ha
scritto:
>  In Rawhide and F21 alpha (and beta), the start page for firefox is now
>  about:newtab, with start.fedoraproject.org a pinned page.
>
>  From the stats on Fedora Magazine — which means someone saw a headline
>  there and clicked — it's getting a _lot_ of use. Generating magazine
>  traffic is good, but even more importantly, this is one of our key
>  channels of communication to users.
>
>  Since the pinned page doesn't show you the new headlines, I'm concerned
>  that we're going to lose a lot from this switch. (We could of course
>  also pin the magazine directly, but, again, no headlines...)
>
>  Do we want to ask the package maintainer to revert the change? I know
>  there was some talk of updating the start.fpo design, but that seems
>  like a separate consideration.
>
>  --
>  Matthew Miller
>  <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; 
Hi Matthew,
indeed having a blank tab is not what I personally like to have in a
browser and I confirm that there are many people using the start.fpo page
as their default browserpage.
We have discussed the redesign of start.fpo a few weeks ago, but will not
be able to start working on it before Fedora 21 final release. The ideas
are pretty much what you already said and should be focused more on the
magazine than on the planet.
I think, but maybe Marketing is the appropriate group for that, having the
actual start.fpo page as default is for sure better than having nothing,
and once we switch to the new design it could be used easily to link to our
other new pages, as getfedora.org and for F22 the hubs.
Thank you for bringing up this topic in time to revert the changes.

-- 
Robert Mayr
(robyduck)

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 02:26:06PM +0100, Robert Mayr wrote:
>  magazine than on the planet.
>  I think, but maybe Marketing is the appropriate group for that, having the
>  actual start.fpo page as default is for sure better than having nothing,
>  and once we switch to the new design it could be used easily to link to our
>  other new pages, as getfedora.org and for F22 the hubs.
>  Thank you for bringing up this topic in time to revert the changes. 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1157682

-- 
Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;
Fedora Project Leader

[Kushal Das]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 11:08 PM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>  In Rawhide and F21 alpha (and beta), the start page for firefox is
> now
>  about:newtab, with start.fedoraproject.org a pinned page. 
>  Do we want to ask the package maintainer to revert the change? I
> know
>  there was some talk of updating the start.fpo design, but that seems
>  like a separate consideration. 
+1 to start.fedoraproject.org

Kushal
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