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.
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?
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On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:07:37AM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > > Hope its the right place to discuss this. Recently, during the redesign > > of the start.fedoraproject.org page, the links to updated/new posts from > > planet.fedoraproject.org were removed. Any specific reason for this? > Often, those posts were not Fedora related, and generally out of our > control. I'm glad you found them usually interesting — that's valuable > feedback. 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, http://planet.fedoraproject.org is there. If *you'd* like to contribute user-focused content (even reposting from your blog, or whatever), see <https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/52782/how-do-i-contribute-to-fedora-magazine/?answer=52786#post-id-52786> 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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