I agree it is not nice to see, but that is not a web site for humans. The default CentOS 403 page is semantically correct: it ensures the root page is not indexed by search engines.
I back your initiative: now the decision if to answer or not is up to NethServer users!
At the end of the installation, people decide if they want to help the project by sending a ping every week that fills this map: Phone Home
The yum repo web log statistics are a bit different because data is not collected on a regular basis (system updates are manual by default) and many people run just a short system test and never go to production, or use multiple/dynamic IPs… and so on!
@alefattorini By their profiles a lot have not been seen since 2017 and a few more 2018. Considering how friendly the community is I am surprised they appear to have dropped of the radar. Or could it be a fault in the DB activity recordings?
Gordon
Yeah, Nah Mate! It’d be bloody bonza to have some true blue Aussie Nethie users to chin wag with and maybe even translate the euro stuff into Ocker lingo (I’m not really a bogan )
I have noted the location widget map in the past with the Aussie machines stuck into a pin somewhere around Uluru. It would be nice to get something a little more defined by city/state.
To help @alefattorini and others define “local” in this part of the world: @compsos is in the same State of Australia as I am (Queensland); He is 2100 km north of me; that is further than Rome to London!
The best thing about the NethServer community being based in Europe, is that, unlike many of the USA based communities, they know there is a difference between Australia and Austria (even though we do compete in Eurovision … why? no idea, but we enjoy it).
It’s quite common in every community that people are passive and just follow the project
I happy that you consider our community so friendly
I have to say thank to a bunch of Nethserverians here, very good people!
Just thinking out loud here I can come up with 2 reasons:
The IP address is horrible for pinpointing the exact location
Privacy. I can imagine not everyone is too keen on having publicly known at what exact (google maps) location their server is.
And lets be frank: joining the conversation like this and just getting to know people that are in your neighborhood (ok Australia is HUGE, so might be not that near) is a great way to experience both the power of the project and the community.
I’m still around, in sunny Townsville Queensland Australia, just busy (or lazy could be used instead). I probably don’t post very often because NS is so reliable. We use it for Webtop Groupware and don’t have many issues.
I will do my best to be more active in the community, which is second to none.