On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:46:58PM -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: > Sorry for breaking the thread and top posting w my awful mobile > client.... > > Do we have stats showing any difference in traffic to community vs > user oriented content? > > I'd argue planet.fpo is the contributor version.... and magazine is > the user version. I liked Paul's idea of having the default on the > front page being user focused content instead of all. An idea is > that the contributor focused stuff could get posted to planet via > fedora mags rss feed which links back to fedoramag, but not promoted > as the user content is. This is a good idea to consider, also. And +1000 to the Planet point you made. I talked about Planet in another post from a different POV (content is kind of a firehose without grouping or audience definition) but I think we may be in agreement. > I think youre going to get a better site overall by making a choice > rather than straddling the two audiences. There is such a dearth of > Fedora user-focused content in general I really think better to make > fedoramag for them since they need it. You could better serve > contributors with some curation on planet.fpo (display planet.fpo > curated by default?) or by getting individuals already listed on > planet to make more better posts. (And the hubs, when they are ready > :) ) +1 here too. > Re underground silo.... what kinds of critical contributor content > are you most concerned about? would planet.fpo not serve that > content well? > > If the concern is that planet posts are fleeting, could we stand up > another wp - very informal - for the contrib focused stuff... but no > front end, brand identity, or anything, just an rss feed to be > slurped into planet but the posts / comments / stats would be stored > in the wp? This is an interesting idea; does it mean that we would route *only* contributor-focused articles to Planet? I actually think that could be smart to improve Planet relevance/coherence. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List info or to change your subscription: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
