And why do *you* need the dashboard?

… might sound like a stupid question. Truth is, I don't need the WordPress dashboard and therefore I don't use it. For me, it's simply useless. (That's why I made Dashboard Skip plugin.)

I am quite interested in which point are my needs different in comparison with yours, what is your motivation to use the dashboard (I presume, most people do have a reason to use it). Please tell me, what is the meaning of dashboard – for you.

This won't be much interresting, I guess. I'm going to explain my point – why I still use Dashboard Skip. Let's see 2.7 administration welcome screen:

• Right now provides for me no useful information. Why should somebody care about count of various items inside his WP? I can imagine, that this box is the way to check pending comments. Since I don't use Akismet but Raven's antispam, I never check this type of information.
• Recent comments I watch through RSS channel.
• Incoming links I watch (when I feel that I could, most of the time I'm not interested) through Google Analytics, that provides „little bit“ more options.
• Plugins box just doesn't fit into my philosophy of web-creation – means: When I need to do something, solve a problem, fix an issue, add a functionality, then I search for plugins that might help. I know that some people proceed oppositely – when they see a possibility, they ask themselves whether they should use it.
• QuickPress. Ok, might be useful. (Is it? Did Automattic include this feature because he knows it has its sense? Or is it just an experiment?)
• No doubts, Recent Drafts have their place on dashboard. I miss here complementary overview of upcoming (scheduled) posts.
• WordPress Development Blog and Other WordPress news? Heritage of previous versions. In my opinion, these boxes should be hidden as default.