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"Can we please remove blog syndication from mozilla.org? It is silly to have useless political discussions linked to from the main page."
Finally someone gets it.

/agrees

I find this discussions good.

it would make a load more sense for developers to maintain two blogs - the first, technical and syndicated on planet.m.o and included on the front page of www.m.o; the second, personal and linked to from the technical blog. I fully agree that political discussion, chat about what flavour bagel was eaten that morning, and which movie a developer didn't like last night - while all interesting at some point to someone - have no place on the front page of www.mozilla.org.

"political discussion, chat about what flavour bagel was eaten that morning ... have no place on the front page of www.mozilla.org."

Totally agree. It's completely geeky and up its own a** (or a*** for British readers). As if it wasn't bad enough that two of the three apps featured are only in beta. There must be other ways to distance yourselves from www.microsoft.com and still look friendly and professional.

Think it's time for everyone to start using categories. Then for moz.org to use both feeds, and let the user filter if they want both, or just mozilla.

Sometimes the stuff is fun... sometimes it wastes time.

It strikes me that there should be an explicitly required action taken to include blog posts on the front page as opposed to adding some sort of tag to have them not be included. Ideally a simple checkbox would do it.

Perhaps the IE devs are on to something with the IE blog...

The other alternative (what I do) is to have post categories and category feeds, so that only Mozilla related discussion goes to mozilla.org/Planet. It's so easy to set up, there's no excuse for not doing it.

…Except for those using services like Blogger and LiveJournal. They don’t get to use categories, AFAIK. (In LiveJournal, you could use moods to separate your entries, but it doesn’t affect the RSS feed anyhow.)

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