WordPress does this neat thing where out of the box you get several blocks on the dashboard that tie you directly back into their upstream community: WordPress Blog shows official communication, "Other WordPress News" offers their equivalent of Drupal Planet, and so on.
Since our dashboard needs content, and since we have a news feed at http://drupal.org/news that talks about things like new core releases, how to get involved in Drupal, and upcoming Drupal events, this seems like a nice thing to point people at to give them an "in" into the community.
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It's likely this issue predates Contrib.social: some issue and comment data are missing.
Should this be closed now ✨ Project messaging channel in core (as experimental) Fixed ?
I am inclined to agree with #44. Therefor I am closing this.