Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 19:45:50 -0400 From: Dan Ponte <dcp1990@neptune.atopia.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new FreeBSD-webpage Message-ID: <20051006234550.GA40260@neptune.atopia.net> In-Reply-To: <20051006224214.GD8320@freebsdmall.com> References: <b41c75520510060225h2eeecdd8w@mail.gmail.com> <di2s9q$4ss$1@sea.gmane.org> <43455D3E.5040007@mbnet.fi> <20051006204336.GA36557@neptune.atopia.net> <20051006213326.GA33286@xor.obsecurity.org> <20051006213740.GA37835@neptune.atopia.net> <20051006214904.GB33546@xor.obsecurity.org> <20051006221541.GA38659@neptune.atopia.net> <20051006224214.GD8320@freebsdmall.com>
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--n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 03:42:14PM -0700, Murray Stokely <murray@freebsd.or= g> was witnessed plotting the following conspiracy: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 06:15:41PM -0400, Dan Ponte wrote: > > One idea is to revert to the old design, which suited people's needs > > just fine. However, I doubt that will happen. >=20 > Uhm, it didn't suit people's needs just fine. It was total crap with > dozens of disorganized links all over the front page and second level > pages topping 100k as they had just grown larger and larger over time > and noone had stepped back to look at how bad it all was for someone > coming to the site for the first time to find any useful information. > I've had so many people ask 'where did all that new content come from > about advocacy and such?'. The answer is it was there before just > hidden in the complexity. >=20 > This is not the appropriate forum for armchair web design discussions. > If you are interested in tweaking the new design then join the -www@ > list. Better yet, you could have participated in the redesign > discussions there over the past 6 months. Patches will be addressed > first. Second will be specific suggestions about regressions in > useability (many have been fixed within hours of being brought up on > the www@ list). I doubt you'll find anyone interested in acting on > any 'I liked it better before' mails. >=20 > Thanks for Kris and others on this list trying to keep things specific > and constructive. Let's let this thread die on stable@ and move it to > www@ where it belongs. >=20 > - Murray Admittedly, having some of the more obscure pages come into plain view is a nice thing. However, I am speaking mostly of the increase in number of clicks it takes to get to frequently-visited pages. And the new "look" is another thing I have a few gripes with. I guess the good thing to do would be to take this up on www, per your suggestion. Ultimately, the goal is to make things better; I just didn't feel that the current ways of doing things are the best means to that end. -Dan --=20 Dan Ponte http://www.theamigan.net/ Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor. -- Edgar R. Fiedler --n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDRbcu8dUD8SpKFR8RAnyLAJ40sAEWd8x32sTQEppUvXlfv8ZdzACg1lM1 xO8uUXS/puBVo7i4EMOyfOA= =5HRz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1--
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