[discussion] archiving and retiring the Dot

[Paul Brown]

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.

The same goes for KDE e.v. announcements (new sponsors, Board sprints, 
advisory board meetings, etc.), and news and blog posts covering KDE's 
mentorization programs: they should live on the sites that talk about those 
things so people who are only interested in those things can avoid all other 
noise.

And if you want a wider array of news (i.e. something noisier), well, that is 
what the planet is for. By removing the dot from the equation, we are helping 
readers reduce their exposure to noise.

It is also worth pointing out that the traffic to the dot is extremely low and 
does not make up for the effort of writing for it and probably maintaining it. 
While monthly visits to other sites are beyond the thousands, sometimes the 
10s of thousands, monthly visits to the dot are in the hundreds, rarely 
breaking 10 visitors a day.

I understand that not all projects equally popular, so there will be a a wide 
differences in traffic,  but the dot is a news site. Maintaining a news site 
nobody reads makes no sense.

Cheers

Paul
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