[Bug 260937] Community page update
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Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2022 06:01:30 UTC
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=260937 --- Comment #2 from Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com> --- Thanks – and sorry, I omitted a few key points from the opening post. It was a quick opener to get the ball rolling. (In reply to PauAmma from comment #1) Removal of 'Newsgroups' from the sidebar: * not intended to entirely remove NNTP/Usenet from the Community page * there's the link from the third paragraph, to the FreeBSD Handbook. Neither of the two FreeBSD groups is disused (obsolete), it's just that NNTP is relatively archaic. Where a community has a complementary method of communication that's primarily web-based (with a good enough UX), the web naturally gains traction. Much more discussion in FreeBSD Forums than in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc, and so on. (I'm not dismissing NNTP altogether. I was a very frequent user around thirty years ago. It's simply much less attractive nowadays.) ---- As sidebars are typically for rapid web navigation – without scanning any length of text, so there's value in the Community sidebar linking to the more popular forms of interaction. I no longer use Twitter, so I don't know which one of the three accounts is most popular (chatty), but I _guess_ that @freebsd is primary and should have a place in the sidebar. ---- Maybe something like this (alphabetical order for everything below 'Community'): ================= Community --------- BSD Now Discord Events FreeBSD Forums IRC Mailing lists Reddit Twitter Regional groups YouTube ================= * BSD Now <https://www.bsdnow.tv/> is broader than FreeBSD alone, however there's the community aspect – interviews etc. – I imagine that it's better placed under Community, than under Support * FreeBSD Forums, two words, its proper name * for sidebar purposes, the phrase 'Regional groups' might be truer than 'User groups' – imagine being a newcomer to FreeBSD, clicking the phrase for the first time (without paying attention to the main body text). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.