separate fpo domain? (was Re: making the website better)

[Máirín Duffy]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Feb 8, 2008 8:25 AM, Jeffrey Tadlock <linux at elfshadow.net> wrote:
>> By bringing people into the Fedora community through a main landing
>> page it should also make messaging to the community a little easier,
>> as we would have one main place to put that special banner announcing
>> the upcoming FudCon, Alpha and Beta releases, Gold releases, etc.
> 
> Here's the problem we want to solve... too much information to dissiminate.
> I don't think a single landing page is going to work.  You want a link
> farm, we can have a link farm, but I don't think it makes any sense at
> all to make the link farm the entry point for new people, nor is a
> guided tour entry point a good thing for existing contributors.
> 
> What current contributors need and what potential contributors need
> are totally different and we need entry points which recognize that.
> On top of that, if we are serious about 'messaging', then we need an
> entry point which is dedicated nearly entirely to 'messaging.'
> That's sort of how messaging works right... you have to be on message
> consistently.
> 
> I'm not afraid of dividing traffic, I'm afraid of shallow traffic...
> people who hit an entry point and lose interest quickly because the
> page has the wrong information and get bored... or too much
> information and they get lost.

100% agreed. I think right now the site has a bit of an identity crisis 
and is trying to be too many things to too many people and is only 
pleasing them all maybe 25-30%.

Better to appeal a scoped out, targeted 30% of people 90%+ than satisfy 
90%+ at a 30%. (make sense?)

~m