[discussion] archiving and retiring the Dot

[Paul Brown]

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
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