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786psi I think a monthly recap of most important updates wouldn't be a bad idea.

Axios it's an interesting perspective that I haven't thought of. At this point I've tried so many different distros and I barely look at the website, the forums, or any socials unless it has a chance to stick around. Then the first thing I check is the community. Is it full of people just saying "Go read the wiki" or "why even ask questions like that", because then it's not for me.
There have really only been 2 distros that I keep in my back pocket, MXLinux and EOS. I still lurk the forums there from time to time and keep up with the recent news and updates.
For me, it's important to see the community engaged, and updates coming from the devs, regardless of what channel it's on. This gives you the sense that things are in a healthy state.
Again, I think it would be great if the "news" could be posted to Mastodon/Twitter/Forums and maybe even a quick post section like the new Verge homepage. When I say news, I mean if the team deems a post to any social necessary or warranted, it should go to all platforms. But I also understand without some middleware or other application layer to integrate it means someone has to at the very minimum copy/paste and format multiple times across multiple platforms, and this may not be feasible.

    Brucehankins One important thing comes from your post. (We all tend to do things different!!!)
    That goes back to an earlier post of mine saying that different venues are needed.

    So do we force people to a certain place or do we give them a limited choice? (Big Question) for a seasoned
    user prob not a big issue but a new user for somebody looking its going be different.

    Your statement (which is very important) and one I look for to.
    For me, it's important to see the community engaged, and updates coming from the devs, regardless of what channel it's on. This gives you the sense that things are in a healthy state.

    I think with these things in mind over the long run will be good and They could say man Solus is the one you want they got there sh*t together. (But I think there could be some improvment just my opinion)

    On a note tho This is really stuff the powers to be can read and gather ideas from and in the future improve
    upon things For solus and we can throw our opinions around to each other and see what sticks.

    Reading these posts has made me think of things.

      Axios On a note tho This is really stuff the powers to be can read and gather ideas from and in the future improve
      upon things

      I hope so too, at least subliminally. I'm glad to learn in this thread there is a sizable bloc of users who have no (professional or otherwise) interest in Matrix-sifting for nuggets. I thought it was just me. Like you said, whatever the result, it will end up improving things.

        brent Yes, I tried my best to comment on this, but sadly the team prefers matrix. πŸ˜₯

          I don't understand why it has to be one or the other. Why can't both be used?

            elfprince Oh yes, I heard themπŸ™‚., I'm staying an optimist as least for (more) regular sync announcements and software changes stuff, future plans, in the works stuff.. I very much like @[deleted] 's idea up ^^ there too. 🀞 I just found the fingers crossed emoji. cool.

              EbonJaeger Oh, in my opinion, it is not an efficient use of time for the dev team, being scattered across platforms. Secondly, if all users are considered and their needs, forum makes the most sense. The posts on it are permanent and easy to find, there is a search box to hunt for solutions in the past, and I think most users prefer it that way. Just thinking of support here. How can helping one person on matrix benefit all users? They won't even know about it, and it will be scrolled up in no time at all. Just my 2.5 cents.

                elfprince

                if all users are considered and their needs, forum makes the most sense

                and I think most users prefer it that way

                I'm not sure that the users who are on Matrix would agree. πŸ˜‰

                The trend that I see on Matrix (and really on the forums, too, for the most part) is that each issue is pretty specific to that particular person's setup, be it configuration, software, or hardware. Anything that is determined to be a non-user-specific issue is referred to the dev tracker for tracking.

                At the end of the day, some people will prefer a platform like Matrix, and some will prefer a platform like the forum here.

                  brent Thats prob not a bad Idea for short term and it wouldnt be taxing on dev once
                  a month update just to see the state of things.

                  On the support side I get both sides of story but like bruce said there is no good way to handle them.
                  (Prob the most important is that no matter what you choose a person feels they are getting the support they need)
                  Think I am going leave it their for myself for now.
                  Has been an interesting and informative thread.

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                  EbonJaeger Many issues also tend to be generic Linux issues rather than Solus-specific issues. I think forums are better from that standpoint as they're openly searchable and don't need additional hurdles.

                  yeah, about today's sync...any word? 🫒. Asking for a friend. I'll show myself out...

                    brent yeah, about today's sync...any word

                    The update has been released. It's a small one, but could be very tasty.

                      WetGeek I'm scared to ask you where you got your information
                      edit/didnt like the emoji

                        brent I'm scared to ask you where you got your information

                        I got it from one of the macros in my bashrcAdditions file, checkUpgrades.
                        Looks like this: alias checkUpgrades='sudo eopkg ur && eopkg lu | tee LastUpgrades.txt'

                        Do you need a newer copy of that file?

                          WetGeek OK you got it organically the right way! By the time you told me there was an update, I did not have one nor recieved an alert for about 20 minutes after you said you got one. ISPs I'm sure.
                          Because you had an update and I did not I thought you were kicking around Element and found the infoπŸ™‚.
                          Phew! thanks for the macro and the info. edit: updated and rebooted already.

                          Just info for those that might have missed it check (flarum update log)

                            Axios Just info for those that might have missed it check (flarum update log)

                            Yeah! Josh really came through for us.