Re: remove twitter links

From: Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum <ads(at)pgug(dot)de>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Devrim Gündüz <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>, Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com>, "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>, Jacob Champion <jacob(dot)champion(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, w^3 <pgsql-www(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: remove twitter links
Date: 2025-03-19 15:02:44
Message-ID: 5357e632-d556-46c2-8416-7921e9c9f914@pgug.de
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On 25/11/2024 09:44, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 4:25 PM Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On 11/23/24 20:43, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Devrim =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=FCnd=FCz?= <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org> writes:
> >> On Thu, 2024-11-21 at 21:31 -0800, Christophe Pettus wrote:
> >>>  If we're going to link to Twitter/X, though, we should link to
> >>> Mastodon and BlueSky at a minimum.
> >
> >> +1.
> >
> > +1.  I'm not for removing the links to X, but we should treat all
> > those services on an equal basis.
>
> +1 here as well.
>
> <release-duty hat>
> However if we are going to really treat them all equally, to me that
> implies that we should have official community accounts on all of
> them,
> and we should have the release announcements automatically pushed
> to all
> of them the way the X announcements are now.
>
> Also, is there an equivalent to "pinning the tweet" on all of those?
> </release-duty hat>
>
>
> We should absolutely not link to a service where we don't have an
> *active* account.  The point isn't linking to the service itself, the
> point is (obviously) to link to *our* presence on the service. At this
> moment, that's pretty much just X, but there is WIP on fixing that,
> independently of what's linked.

At this point there are no social media accounts anymore on the website.
People do not have a chance to follow the project on the most common
accounts.

Is there any plan to link to existing presences?
And what happened to the WIP for other platforms?

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Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
German PostgreSQL User Group
European PostgreSQL User Group - Board of Directors
Volunteer Regional Contact, Germany - PostgreSQL Project

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