Remove News link from site #389
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I don't know how much sense it makes to remove the link. If there is no link, nobody can reach the past articles. |
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I was past this PR but I was really upset. With all due respect, I am 100% against this PR. I know that you have put a lot of effort and sacrificed free time, but this is an important part of the official website that can announce the results of the team. |
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Hi Lonnie, |
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I would agree that having a well-maintained news section is a good feature. I would submit, though, that having a news section that is almost exclusively used for release notifications, but has missed the last 7 releases has a negative impact and makes the project look abandoned or dying. We already have links to most recent announcements section of the forum on the front page of the website, so any posts about releases are often duplicates or poor substitutes. My point is that we're not losing any information - it is still there on the site - but we're having a better appearance to newcomers. The only other solution I see is to form a team that regularly puts out content with information about new projects built with it from our users, tutorials, etc. And I don't see anyone stepping up to do that. Since everything is open-source and doesn't have a big commercial entity behind it like a lot of other frameworks, it makes it more challenging to keep a PR team together, since we're all just doing this when we have time and energy to volunteer. |
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This commit message is "Remove News link from site".
Can you remove the unrelated changes in this commit?
Because it makes difficult to review.
Do the changes in this file change the CSS code, or just fixing coding style?
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Well damn. Didn't realize my editor reformatted everything. I made a small change to the width of the menu only so that the removal of a link didn't leave a gap between the remaining links and the "Download" button.
What do you mean? First, this PR does not change the "CodeIgniter Forum" part. The links to news are still there: |
That's my point. The links to the forum posts are where we post the release information. All the blog was really being used for was telling about the releases. And it was a very long way behind (the last post was 8 months ago about 4.3 release, and we're up to 4.3.7 now). The blog was duplicating what is already available in the forum links. Since we don't have the hands to do more with it, I feel we need to remove it because right now it's providing a tarnished image of the project. Having no blog at all, and just using the forums like we've done in the past, is enough to keep everything current and make it look like the project is still active. |
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@lonnieezell The links are links to the news articles in the site. If we don't update News, the links never change. |
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Doh! Silly me. Pretty sure that used to be pulling links from the announcement forum. Forgot I changed it over to the blog instead. Well, then, if people are ok with it, I'll make that happen and replace that with posts from the forums. |
I understand your concern, so I'm okay with the change. |
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Hey. What about replacing “news” with “forum” in the top menu? It will require no change in the css and the forum is really important. We have to scroll down to visit the forum. (To be honest, in terms of UX we have had this problem for a long time. It should be easy to catch.) |
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Late to this convo, but I want to throw out one more controversial idea 🙃 LLMs are very good at generating summaries of recent activity for blog posts - what if we used that to keep something relevant going in the News section until we have a minor release that is worth a human write-up? |
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… database announcements table instead.
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Those generated posts can be generated and posted in tne forum and work just as well. I pushed changes that replaced the home page Recent News section to pull from the forum instead. |
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I will pull locally and give it a look. |
@lonnieezell maybe you have missed it? What about this suggestion? |
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I cannot see the difference in the CSS file. Firefox: Chrome: |
While I'm not totally opposed to that, I think that's up for discussion. That ignores Slack and is a semi-duplicate of the |
Then if we're ok with it all someone just needs to approve it :) |
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@demyr17 @lonnieezell Replacing “news” with “forum” in the top menu is pending. |
We don't really have the hands needed to keep an active news section going, so I'm ripping out the links to the news links and routes. I'm leaving the blog engine itself, so that it's easy to add back in if we ever decide to.