Maybe it's time to say goodbye to start.fedoraproject.org?

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Tue Aug 26 20:22:33 UTC 2014


On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 04:12:12PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 10:53:01PM +0300, Elad Alfassa wrote:
> > Generally, the start page was designed to somehow be a gateway for
> > Fedora to encourage people to participate and contribute. But I'm not
> > sure if it really works.
> 
> The web stats for Fedora Magazine show start.fpo as our top referrer after
> search engines (in aggregate) and fedoraproject.org itself. It looks like a
> lot of people are using it and I'd hate to cut that off. 
> 
> I think a redesign might be in order, though.

It was agreed that in the short term, while redesign is being
concocted, the Fedora Magazine would be featured prominently at
start.fpo as opposed to the Planet feed.  I believe the thought is
this is more applicable to general users who mainly see start.fpo
anyway.

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