Bug 260937
| Summary: | Community page update | ||||||
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| Product: | Documentation | Reporter: | Graham Perrin <grahamperrin> | ||||
| Component: | Website | Assignee: | freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc> | ||||
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||||||
| Severity: | Affects Many People | CC: | carlavilla, pauamma | ||||
| Priority: | --- | ||||||
| Version: | Latest | ||||||
| Hardware: | Any | ||||||
| OS: | Any | ||||||
| URL: | https://www.freebsd.org/community/ | ||||||
| See Also: | https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=260968 | ||||||
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Description
Graham Perrin
2022-01-04 20:09:09 UTC
(In reply to Graham Perrin from comment #0) I don't see .announce in that screenshot if I'm reading it right, only .misc. That said, assuming .announce is a mirror of announce@, that only had 61 messages in 2021 per the archives, so I'm not sure a low count is an indication of disuse. 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). A commit in branch main references this bug: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=9a1946df94863c2034d6c850458cb946a999e7a1 commit 9a1946df94863c2034d6c850458cb946a999e7a1 Author: Sergio Carlavilla Delgado <carlavilla@FreeBSD.org> AuthorDate: 2022-01-30 12:31:27 +0000 Commit: Sergio Carlavilla Delgado <carlavilla@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2022-01-30 12:32:42 +0000 Update Community page - Add Reddit community to community page - Rework the sidebar PR: 260937 Submitted by: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin (AT) gmail.com> website/content/en/community/_index.adoc | 2 ++ website/themes/beastie/layouts/partials/sidenav.html | 15 +++++++++------ 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) Thanks for this rework :) Fixed. |