Robert,

I love Mozilla Hacks, but putting the bios of the development team over and over again and again on Planet Mozilla for every single article from Mozilla Hacks is just unreadable. I understand that people are worth acknowledging, but it seems superfluous to acknowledge the whole team for every article.

Thanks,
PC

1. Robert Nyman

   Thanks for your input.

   If you read regularly, I understand that that can be a lot of information, and that’s why we put it last in the blog post. However, we also need to take into account that people reach this blog post coming from Twitter, a search engine or any other means, and in most cases they don’t have any background information about Mozilla Hacks Weekly or the Developer Engagement team (the team info is only included in the Mozilla Hacks Weekly blog posts).

   So, having it as one big footer to the blog post is, for now, the compromise to tend to all kinds of targets. Any suggestions of other ways of achieving that is welcome! Thanks!

   May 24th, 2012 at 14:27
   1. David Mulder

      You could add some javascript to read out “document.referrer” and if it’s from hacks.mozilla or planet mozilla then hide the div. (Not that I care much :P ), but it might be a simple solution.

      May 25th, 2012 at 04:25
      1. Robert Nyman

         Well… Then you have some JavaScript dependency, and it’s not desirable in general to have JavaScript as part of a post, I think. Thanks for the suggestion, though!

         May 27th, 2012 at 02:23
         1. David Mulder

            The beatiful thing about it is that you actually do not have a javascript dependency, as without javascript the div will simply show. And it’s not like you don’t already have javascript on this page. The reason why I suggested it was because you wouldn’t have to play around with the CMS itself but could simply include it on a post level. Oh well, as I said, I don’t mind the team list (although I have never looked at it tbh and it feels quite pointless :P )

            May 29th, 2012 at 07:20

         2. Robert Nyman

            Well, yes, it could be done. But generally I think it would be a hassle/too much work to do it for each post.
            And it’s ok if you find it pointless. :-)

            But for us who attend a lot of conferences, it’s a good way for people to see us and recognize us from a Mozilla context.

            May 29th, 2012 at 10:51