Community building and channel feedback

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@aschrijver

Yes. An example: You point to something that is obviously important. Yet it is post no. 144 in a thread with 200 posts. How can a newcomer inform themself about the project? Should they read the entire forum in sequential FIFO order, and deduce importance from text formulation and formatting?

I think a kind of ‘distillation process’ should be added whereby all things that are relevant are copied out of their TL;DR locations and into places where it is easy to catch up on what’s going on and what needs to happen next, e.g.:

“Great! We have made a decision. Could you update the [decision log / status page / issue / docs / diagram / what-have-we? ]”

I proposed an update of the main page in order to somewhat address this comment.

The monthly reports should mention all the decisions, these page are the best way to catch up on what’s going on.

For the specific mentioned example, this information is mentioned at the end of the blue banner displayed by default on top of every page of this forum. @dachary Would you agree to move the content of this blue banner with the content of the first post of this topic and to replace it by a link to this post?