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In-built news feed/button #911

Open Tg8igPGjh3 opened 11 years ago

Tg8igPGjh3 commented 11 years ago

Not sure if this is easy or hard in Qt. But maybe worth a try. People (and so do I) miss important announcements like the PPA change. And we could use this to tell people to upgrade (for the BTGuard fix.)

Original idea (from me): http://qbforums.shiki.hu/index.php/topic,2166.0.html

Feature:

The function behind:

Tg8igPGjh3 commented 11 years ago

This is a feature request, tag it as one, please. Thank you.

sledgehammer999 commented 11 years ago

Sorry but this screams bloat.

non-Windows/MAC users couldn't do anything even if they wanted. They can't directly download a binary from us. They have to wait for their distro's packagers to make the new version available.

Windows users already get a popup window when a new version is available. If they care for the changes, they can get them in the News section of the site.

But there are 2 things we can do/improve on the site:

  1. Expose a direct link to the changelog entry in the News section, when the user browses the Download page.
  2. Make the News available as an RSS feed too, so anyone interested could subscribe to it.
Tg8igPGjh3 commented 11 years ago

You misunderstood me I guess (or maybe not).

The main point is that people will read news. If they read them, we can make announcements, which we think are important. Like "Ubuntu PPA users: Please adjust your repositories." And things like that.

I don't want direct downloads or a different update mechanism, just a way to communicate with people. This PPA change is one of the examples I could think of...

(I understand that many people don't fit into the Ubuntu PPA user crowd for example. But it's just an example. Btw we could make an Ubuntu bugreport, ask the community so affected people can sign it. You can ask the devs to upgrade given packages if the users benefit from that.)

sledgehammer999 commented 11 years ago

I don't think coding such a feature in qbt is a good idea.

The PPA change was in the News but nobody cared much to read it, anyway.

Tg8igPGjh3 commented 11 years ago

Yeah but that's just an example. I only saw / visited the news site twice. Once when I first heard about qBT and then when someone mentioned it on the forums. But that's it. There is no notice, no nothing. It's just lying there with important info.

But oh well, I don't want to bloat the software either.

luzpaz commented 1 year ago

It could parse the changelog at https://www.qbittorrent.org/news

Edit: it could also encourage on-boarding devs