[Qgis-psc] News feed

[Andreas Neumann]

Well - we are not exactly flooding people with entries. We started with 
zero entries, and now there are two. The one controversial one will soon 
disappear anyway.

For me it is exactly the contrary. If I don't see any entries, I get the 
impression that this community is not really active. If users see a 
local event in the feed in region xx, it might encourage them to 
organize a similar event in their own region - don't you think? Even if 
there is a local event every week, this wouldn't be "flooding" our 
users. It would just show that there is some nice activity.

I get the point though from Richard, that filtering content 
automagically (like social media does), based on (GEO)-IP address or 
languages is not desirable for everyone. If we can ask the users about 
their region or language of interest it would perhaps be useful. And I 
agree that "geofence" is an ugly term. Sounds like military/security. We 
could rather call it "region of interest". Sounds much nicer.

I would also give people the option to see all entries - and maybe even 
make this the default.

Andreas

Am 31.10.19 um 18:26 schrieb Paolo Cavallini:
> Hi Marco,
>
> Il 31/10/19 17:41, Marco Bernasocchi ha scritto:
>
>> My point was more in not overwhelming the users right at the beginning
>> with a not so useful message. it was mora a matter of timing, basically
>> the second news I see on QGIS is relevant only to a niche population. If
>> any other software would do that my instinctive reaction would be to
>> disable the whole thing to protect me from an information overflow.
> exactly, fully agreed
> thanks