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Opened 3 years ago

Last modified 9 months ago

#5445 accepted enhancement

Planet feed does not have variety

Reported by: iandunn's profile iandunn Owned by: iandunn's profile iandunn
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Description (last modified by iandunn)

planet.w.org feeds the news in Core's Events & News dashboard widget.

Right now it subscribes to a lot of early contributors who don't publish often, and some who are no longer active in the project.

Most of the remaining sites don't publish often either. The only ones that do are the Tavern and HeroPress, with the Tavern dominating the majority of the items in the feed.

What are some ways to solve that?

IIRC, changes to the feed need Matt's sign-off.

Change History (13)

#1 @iandunn
3 years ago

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#2 follow-ups: @iandunn
3 years ago

I think the simplest way would be to add more sites to the feed. The authors would need to be highly trusted and responsible. If anyone has suggestions, please add them.

If that isn't enough, another idea would be to open a Core ticket to discuss changing the Widget's display logic. Sites could be limited to 1-2 items in the widget, rather than being able to take up all 3 spots. (The first of the 4 spots is always dedicated to official w.org/news posts)

#3 @sippis
3 years ago

Sharing my quick two cents.

In my opinion, new personal blogs shouldn't be added and existing ones should be (at least mainly) removed. The widget name is "News & Events", not "News, Events & Personal opinions".

Few feeds to add:

  • central.wordcamp.org/feed
  • wordpressfoundation.org/feed
  • wpandup.org/feed
  • gutenbergtimes.com/feed

#4 in reply to: ↑ 2 @sippis
3 years ago

Replying to iandunn:

I think the simplest way would be to add more sites to the feed. The authors would need to be highly trusted and responsible. If anyone has suggestions, please add them.

If that isn't enough, another idea would be to open a Core ticket to discuss changing the Widget's display logic. Sites could be limited to 1-2 items in the widget, rather than being able to take up all 3 spots. (The first of the 4 spots is always dedicated to official w.org/news posts)

Giving that Tavern publishes currently 1-3 new articles almost daily, limiting how many spots each site do get sounds reasonable. Regardless how much new sources would be added, Tavern will supersede articles from those other sources quite quickly.

#5 in reply to: ↑ 2 ; follow-up: @greenshady
3 years ago

Replying to iandunn:

I think the simplest way would be to add more sites to the feed. The authors would need to be highly trusted and responsible. If anyone has suggestions, please add them.

Post Status falls under the umbrella of quality journalism in the WordPress space. I'm not sure if the commercial nature of the site would prohibit its inclusion. If not, that is my one recommendation.

#6 @Otto42
3 years ago

Proposing any relevant feeds to Matt would be the way to get them included.

#7 in reply to: ↑ 5 @iandunn
3 years ago

Replying to greenshady:

Post Status falls under the umbrella of quality journalism in the WordPress space.

+1. They're already in the feed, but only the `planet` category, which doesn't appear to be used frequently.

#8 @iandunn
3 years ago

  • Owner set to iandunn
  • Status changed from new to accepted

@hlashbrooke was talking to Matt about this, and he's going to add a few of the ones suggested above.

Matt also had the idea of being able to add individual posts from any site, without having to add the site's entire feed. I put together a quick version of that yesterday, and am going to test it out on make.w.org/test.

#9 @iandunn
3 years ago

In 10289:

Reblog Feed: Initial commit.

See #5445

#10 @iandunn
3 years ago

The Foundation and Central blogs were added in r16488-dotorg.

#11 @iandunn
3 years ago

Gutenberg Times was added in r17081-dotorg.

#12 @peterwilsoncc
9 months ago

I've done a quick review of the feeds listed in the sidebar of planet.wordpress.org for status.

Dead links

  • Jen Mylo

Off topic

  • Andy Skelton (photo blog)
  • Dougal Campbell (social feeds)
  • Joseph Scott (politics, random)

Dormant (year of last post noted)

  • Andrew Ozz (2014)
  • Nacin (2015)
  • gravatar (2014)
  • Lloyd Dewolf (2017)
  • Lorelle on WP (2018)
  • Mike Little (2014)
  • Westi (2013)
  • pingomatic (2015)
  • WordPress.com Apps (2016)
  • WP TV (2016)
  • mdawaffe (2015)

Some of the names in the dormant list are names I don't recognise and I'm pretty long in the tooth in terms of being a WordPress contributor. Other names I do recognise and respect, but know they haven't been contributing for a while.

If individuals are to be in the list, it would be good to refresh it to include some more recent and active contributors who blog frequently. There's probably some additional wordpress.org offical content that could be included these days.

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