MODX News Feed - neglected?

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The MODX News Feed on the Manager dashboard seems to me to be a bit underused.

Currently, the latest headline is from 14th Jan 2019 - the MODX Amsterdam Meetup announcement.

There’s been loads of news since then [indeed, much of it announced in Amsterdam], not least the launch of the new website and this great new Community Forum. But not a peep on the newsfeed!

I think this is a missed opportunity on two counts.

Firstly, a slow news feed reflects badly on MODX as a project. Keeping the feed fresh is an easy and cheap way to assure users that MODX is alive & kicking, vibrant and dynamic.

Secondly, it’s a great way to entice users to engage with the community - and we all know how important that is.

Almost every MODX user will see the News Feed pop up several times a day and at the moment we all just glance past it because we know it’s content is static.

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Have you seen the Blog (https://modx.com/blog/)

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Hey - ta for the reply - I have - and that’s kind of my point - there’s all this good news going on and yet the MODX Manager News Feed doesn’t feature any of it.

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It’s usually core specific news we put in that feed, so as not to annoy people. We’d be happy to add some ham though!

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Thanks Mat - I guess there might be an element of personal taste there for each user.

I’d personally love to see some ham!

Run wee a poll to gauge opinion?

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How about a setting to subscribe to different types of news? I’m thinking of a checkbox where you can check whether you want core, dev, meetup or whatever else there is -news. This way everybody could tweak their feed how they like without getting annoyed.

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