We're allowed to open a thread to discuss them. There's a few times, I wish I could comment on them, but not that often. I can do without.
It may be better to lock those threads after their one post, as is done. It depends though, whether it's official statements or by users who are also in here.
There's been too much arguing and too much non-technical noise to threads. I noticed that some people like to argue with newcomers, and they wait until the early weekend to start up. Sometimes it's one off, but some have done that habitually in the past. The noise in itself isn't so bad.
If the discussions were of always of high quality, then comments should be allowed on more of those threads.
On other sites, there's good articles on software. They have more separation between that, and the comments which devolve into irrelevant topics that we don't care about or have nothing to do with software. This site doesn't deserve that on those official threads, and there's less separation between an official thread and off posts.
Some announcements are repetitive, so it would be better if those official announcements are continued on one thread for each year, like staff announcements, without other comments.
I also believe that they don't necessarily need to be here, but definitely have a representative for social communities here and for other official social outlets.
I don't like FaceBook and X for viewing social media. Linkin doesn't really match for a software social community. There's Mastodon. The forums, IRC and mailing lists are main communities, and those are Additions. FreeBSD could have additional official social outlets not tied to closed platforms. Maybe Mastodon or another Opensource one makes sense.
