Drop start.fedoraproject.org in favour of about:home

[Elad Alfassa]

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Kévin Raymond <shaiton at fedoraproject.org>wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Elad Alfassa <elad at fedoraproject.org>
> wrote:
> > This message is sent to two lists: websites and desktop.
> >
> > start.fedoraproject.org has many problems [0], mainly:
> > 1) it's ugly
>
> You can help
>
I've tried, but the general agreement of the design team was that the page
is useless

>
> > 2) it doesn't serve a clear function
>
> Yes it is, it shows me the awesome Fedora logo many times a day :)
>
Not really useful. you can put a sticker next to your screen instead, if
you want.

>
> > 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?
>
> As seen before this page is used, to get people on the Planet.
>
The planet is not really interesting for end-users, and contributors
already have them in their RSS readers.

> And about:home will work only on Firefox, where we can actually set
> start.fpo to the home of every browsers if needed.
>
> Then we should use upstream default homepage for every browser we ship.

> >
> > [0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Start.fpo_redesign
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