A number of user-visible changes have been made lately, and I keep thinking there should be a way to announce and publicize such things, succinctly. No discussion, just headlines.
So I had this idea that a wiki node would serve the purpose quite well. It would be editable by the Cabal — all those who have the ability, in some form or another, to effect changes to the site. Only user-visible changes would be announced. For example, new shortcut types, refinements in site policy, relocation of important forms/inputs, new/deprecated user settings parameters, new/deprecated style elements (DOM classes), new/deprecated sections, etc., etc.
Announcements would be kept short, and could link to the PMD or other relevant node for further information.
Ideally, it would have an RSS feed as well.
(Update) A number of people have opined that PMD is the proper and best place for all announcements of site changes. I disagree, slightly, for this reason: PMD is not convenient for finding out, quickly and easily, what's new and different. On the one hand, there's way too much in PMD that isn't change announcements. There's discussion of ideas for future changes, often including extensive threads that wander off into other topics, devolve into arguments, etc. There's requests and complaints about the site from newbies who haven't quite got the hang of the place yet, and there's questions about how it works. On the other hand, the legitimate (post facto) announcements are scattered, one per node. The user who wants to see what's changed has to filter — visually — through all the PMD titles looking for likely candidates. To make matters worse, the titles of announcement nodes generally aren't headlines succinctly summarizing the changes; their authors like to get cutesy.
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