I added some questions for the town hall to the moderator, but I have a thought that is not a question and won't fit into 140 char anyway.
I think the reason this crosses the line into advertisement is that it seems like we're doing something the user isn't asking for. Search is nice and out of the way until you need it, and we know it's a service users want that we have chosen not to provide ourselves. We also know we are driving business to these providers and we charge accordingly. In this case, the rationale doesn't seem to be "users don't know where to go" and this is a solution to a problem users are having. It's possible that we have data that shows this is the case, but the talk has been "but it looks bad empty!" Something else to keep in mind, having Google be our default homepage has helped contribute to the problem that users think they have to go through Google to get places. This tiles feature could actually help solve *that* problem, and it would be giving users a choice compared to the default home page experience. This sounds similar to the feature we heard about in the Firefox in China thread, it seems interesting. No one has said it yet, but wasn't advertising in Netscape part of the death of that product? I wouldn't be surprised if that is in the back of other people's minds as well. It doesn't mean that we're making the same mistake, and I know we're not talking about out and out advertising, but the similarities that do exist are what's making people nervous. On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Daniel Glazman <[email protected]> wrote: > On 13/02/14 07:44, tofumatt wrote: > > > Also, you can't apologize by saying "sorry you took what I said as an > attack". You're either sorry you said something wrong or you're not; don't > apologize for someone mistaking what you said. That's so disingenuous. > > Fred - who I highly respect - and I discussed this privately and he > accepted my apologies saying "no hard feelings". So.... > > </Daniel> > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance > _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
