On 11/7/18 9:36 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: > I'd like to propose that we drop the ability to register training events > on the www.postgresql.org <http://www.postgresql.org> site. > > Reasons: > > 1. It's basically a system set up to game, where it helps to flood with > a lot of instances and then cancel them (often without actually removing > the registration on the website, and our moderators certainly don't have > the time to go double-check which instances are actually happening etc)
Yeah, I think this is the crux of it: there are some people who are using the system fairly for promoting GA trainings with high-quality content that do happen. And then there is the above, which unfortunately is not just speculation but has been confirmed in multiple instances.
> 2. It takes a lot of work for our moderators
I will certainly +1 this bullet point.
> 3. Based on (1) it provides very little value to the end user the way it > is now.
+1 for sure. Some of this is on us to clean up the UX (below).
> 4. And based on (3), in the end it also doesn't provide much value to > the companies providing training.
Well, it must provide some value because organizations keep submitting training events.
> Instead, I propose that we long-term merge this functionality into the > "professional services" part of the site, as a "this provider provides > both support and training" or "this provider provides just training" > kind of fields. Now, that section of the site *also* needs a complete > redesign and re-thought, but the problems to consider (avoid what's > basically spam and figuring out how to get a listing thats actually > useful to end users) are very similar between things like support and > training in this context.
+1, but I think with the correct interface it will make things much better for both our users and organizations that are helping to provide professional services around the community.
> But short term,let's just drop them because they're useless today.