2012/2/2 Máirín Duffy <duffy@fedoraproject.org>
On Thu, 2012-02-02 at 09:33 -0800, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
> I totally understand redesigning, but not understanding the dropping
> of the page - what would be a reasonable replacement?

The rationale is that when people open up a web browser, they want to go
to where they want to go, and that is very likely not
start.fedoraproject.org.

E.g., if I open a web browser, I'm going to view my web calendar, read
planet Fedora, or look something up on wikipedia.

So the alternative is a dashboard built into the browser (Firefox
provides this via a plugin, I think the others do too) that shows your
most frequently visited sites so you can easily click to access them,
since that's what you really want to do.

~m

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I agree with Mairin, the most folks would want to go to their own website after the launch the browser.

The only way I could think of having start.fedoraproject.org being of any use it to link the user to the corresponding Release Notes [1] (as an example). This way the user would have a quick glance of what's new and what has changed and they go on with their daily business. Another reason for going to that page is the "CommonBugs" page which is important, especially after an upgrade.

Unless we something like I mention above is done, my thought recently has been to remove it or maybe just replace start.fp.o with  fedoraproject.org

Sijis

[1] - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_16_Alpha_release_notes