Re: Drop start.fedoraproject.org in favour of about:home
by Elad Alfassa
On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 2:10 AM, Martin Sourada <martin.sourada(a)gmail.com>wrote:
> But lets look at the current one first. What's in:
> 1. search -- superfluous, current web browsers have search integrated
> in their UIs and in my experience people use it
>
True. Furthermore having a Google powered search as a fedora branded page
doesn't really fit with the project values, because Google is not open
source.
> 2. fedora planet posts -- that's what default configs of rss readers
> should include, why duplicating it in a web browser?
>
Excellent point. Plus, we have the planet in the default bookmark set
> 3. announcements -- well this one's hard, the mailing list probably
> does not have a rss feed, or does it?
>
Actually, every mailing list has an RSS feed, that's how we get the
announcements on start.fpo :)
> 4. a bunch of links -- can be better managed with initial speed dial
> config
>
Or better set of default bookmarks.
>
> Furthermore, since major players in the browser feed are already using
> speed dial (chrome by default, firefox for new tabs), people are most
> likely used to that.
> There's only one thing that bugs me a little. One of the biggest sources
> of traffic on my blog is from start.fedorapeople.org (even more than
> from the planet itself) so what we are discussing *might* not reflect
> the real state of things, actually... Are there any statistically
> significant data (I realize one low-traffic blog is not statistically
> significant) regarding the real-world usage of start.fp.o?
>
I don't know if we have any statistics, I never bothered to find out. if
someone has them, it's probably the infrastructure team.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
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My suggestion after reading this long discussion:
We should have a first-run page which Firefox will show after you install
Fedora.
After that, it should show the default upstream start page.
For other browsers and/or people who prefer to use it, we will keep
start.fpo (maybe redesign it to look better) and anyway have start.fpo as
part of the set of default bookmarks.
Sounds reasonable?
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-Elad Alfassa.
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Drop start.fedoraproject.org in favour of about:home
by Elad Alfassa
This message is sent to two lists: websites and desktop.
start.fedoraproject.org has many problems [0], mainly:
1) it's ugly
2) it doesn't serve a clear function
3) It's one of the first things people trying Fedora will see, so it'll
effect their opinion about Fedora.
I suggest we just drop this page completely and use the default firefox
about:home start page instead.
Thoughts?
[0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Start.fpo_redesign
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-Elad Alfassa.
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