[wp-hackers] Dashboard Clutter

[Owen Winkler]

Matt Mullenweg wrote:

> Owen Winkler wrote:
>
>> This spot could also be used for statistics summaries (with cool 
>> graphs!) about referrals and browsers and such.
>
> I think things like that would be great for sub-menus of Dashboard.

Maybe, but I would certainly rather see statistics for my own blog on 
the main dashboard page than read post titles from yours, which may be 
interesting but are usually not WordPress related.  I mean, I have an 
RSS aggregator and it's name isn't WordPress.

>> You don't want items like that to be missed in the midst of Craig's 
>> illuminating but low-s/n-for-most-users interview.
>
> If you have something you'd like to write for the dev blog please let 
> me know. Ideally it would be updated at least weekly.

Maybe you understood my point from my last message, but I want to be 
clear about this:
Interviews and musings about blog society are fine content and even I 
enjoy them.  But the primary feed that's permanently on the dashboard 
should display *only* high-risk security notices and version upgrades.  
If some random weekly post (that users have questionable interest in 
anyway) pushes down an important security upgrade notice, something has 
gone wrong.

Owen