Honey, I shrunk the list of pods...
Please don't be seduced by the title, it's not that ;)
What I want to draw your attention to is the following List of pods When people see this, they have an unpleasant reaction (I asked some): "what the fuck is that?"; "why would I need to know those details?"; "what about podadmins?"; "why would I trust those servers?"
I suggest we make the lists of pods more user friendly and transparent in a social media sense. We could add for instance a link to the podadmin (not to his/her real name, if she wants to be anonymous, but to a short presentation of herself - like, hey, I'm podadmin X, I like this and that, welcome to my pod) or a printscreen of "why is this pod different from others". I believe that would make joining diaspora* more entertaining and provocative!
jakobdee Sun 7 Dec 2014 1:30PM
i didnt think podupti.me was too bad .. i dont think making the presentation too complicated would help understanding? ... i DEFINITELY agree with pods expressing their individuality ... i was just checking out framasphere .. great features :) ..... i dont know ... its the niave/power users question again?
riderplus Sun 7 Dec 2014 1:51PM
@jakobdee that's the point, the KISS principle (Keep It Simple, Stupid), but making it more user-friendly, like a French KISS :)
goob Sun 7 Dec 2014 2:13PM
The plan at some point is to take the best from Pod Uptime and combine it with the best from Jason's stats page to form a new, 'official' pod selection tool which will be hosted on the official project site. When this is done, that's when we can make changes such as you're suggesting.
See this discussion, where such ideas are already being thrown around.
riderplus Sun 7 Dec 2014 2:31PM
@goob good :)
Jonne Haß Sun 7 Dec 2014 3:20PM
Proposals are for reaching a decision in a controversial topic. They do not force anybody to do any contribution, they are a way to deciding if an existing contribution is desired or in what way it must be modified before being accepted. They're also a tool reach consensus on a controversial topic. Proposals are not for drawing attention to one topic, open source developers are usually good at finding ideas about what they'd like to do by themselves.
As such this proposal is another one that's completely useless. I feel we need a subcategory we can move this useless proposals to or even just a policy to be able to clean them out.
Alexander Zatko Sun 7 Dec 2014 3:36PM
@jonnehass, only the voting options listed in the proposal description box are acceptable in this group? Please point me to the bylaws so I can avoid causing any problems in the future. As it stands, "neutral" is the position I have with this issue.
If you do not like the existence of "neutral" vote in general, bring it up in the Features Loomio group and have it eliminated. Good luck.
Jonne Haß Sun 7 Dec 2014 3:38PM
@alexanderzatko Sorry for the confusion, I incorrectly used the term vote there and corrected it.
Mike Simoens Sun 7 Dec 2014 3:48PM
Replace this proposal with a new proposal to make a pod chooser that is controlled and implemented by this community.
riderplus Sun 7 Dec 2014 3:49PM
@jonnehass :
As such this proposal is another one that’s completely useless. I feel we need a subcategory we can move this useless proposals to or even just a policy to be able to clean them out.
I'm not commenting on neurotic comments. They're useless to me, too ;) Otherwise thanks for your comment from your first paragraph :)
riderplus · Sun 7 Dec 2014 12:59PM
It will not help @davidmorley redesign his site, it will make him help us redesign it. Please don't misinterpret what I'm saying, thx :)