On Tuesday, 3 October 2023 23:04:12 CEST Albert Astals Cid wrote: > El dimarts, 3 d’octubre de 2023, a les 22:01:26 (CEST), Paul Brown va > > escriure: > > On Tuesday, 3 October 2023 20:30:51 CEST Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > > El dimarts, 3 d’octubre de 2023, a les 19:18:37 (CEST), Paul Brown va > > > > > > escriure: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > That is not correct, Akademy makes a huge use of the dot for sharing > > > > > info > > > > > to the wider community > > > > > > > > > > You can see this by looking at the articles on https://dot.kde.org/ > > > > > > > > But that reasoning is a bit weird, no? I am reading "There are many > > > > Akademy > > > > articles on the dot because Akademy articles are posted on the dot". > > > > But > > > > surely the same could be said of another site, say akademy.kde.org, if > > > > we > > > > started posting Akademy articles there, right? > > > > > > > > I don't see how that makes using the dot over any other site better. > > > > > > > > > KDE needs somewhere for official news, having that just mixed in > > > > > with > > > > > blog > > > > > posts would make them much harder to find and be drowned out in > > > > > noise > > > > > > > > I would argue that it is not noise. Blog posts collected on the > > > > planet, > > > > by > > > > and large _are_ KDE news. > > > > > > > > If anything the dot brings more noise to the planet than any other > > > > source, > > > > as multiple largely unrelated topics are covered on the dot, while > > > > blogs > > > > of the different projects and developers tend to focus on narrow, > > > > specific > > > > topics. > > > > > > > > In any case, if noise is what you want to avoid (and it is a valid > > > > point > > > > to > > > > bring up), it makes much more sense to publish Akademy news on the > > > > site > > > > that hosts all the other Akademy info, that is: on akademy.kde.org and > > > > interested parties can go there to get their news. > > > > > > I disagree, I see akademy.kde.org as the page for people explicitly > > > interested in Akademy, but even people not really interested in Akademy > > > are > > > potentially interested in what happened in it, > > > > As far as I know, there is no plan to stop posting news about Akademy or > > impede those people who are interested in Akademy news from reading them, > > albeit elsewhere. > > > > > e.g. because they are > > > interested in the decision we took to rename Plasma to Quark. > > > > What?!? > > That was just an hypothetical example of something that may be decided in > Akademy (and thus reported in the Akademy news) that people that are not > interested in Akademy per se would like to know about.
You nearly gave me a hypothetical heart attack. Cheers Paul -- Promotion & Communication www: https://kde.org Mastodon: https://floss.social/@kde Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kde/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/kdecommunity LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kde
