I don't think this is fair to the maintainers of Cabal and the Cabal website. You can't do work nobody asked for and then get upset if people are unwilling to adopt and maintain the unasked-for-code. That's like buying someone a puppy, when you don't even know if they like dogs. Writing software anew is the fun part, the not-fun part is the maintenance.
I've worked as a web developer for 10 years now and a SPA for what could and should be strictly a purely static content website would only have downsides even when you ignore maintenance. I won't enumerate my grievances with SPAs in general or in particular for this kind of website, Bardur and Thomas and discussed some of the issues ably. I appreciate that you wanted to make something for the community and see it get used, but you need factor in and carefully consider peoples' needs, constraints, and desires if you want them to use what you make. I think it would be sad and a loss if this put you off contributing to projects like Cabal in the future though. If you're interested in helping the Haskell community and it wasn't just about making a ReactJS website I would exhort you to check the calls for participation on Haskell Weekly ( e.g .https://haskellweekly.news/issues/111.html ) or to reach out to specific maintainers on projects you care about and ask them what they feel is needed. I'm not involved in Cabal and have no authority, but if you'd asked me, I would've said the Cabal site mostly needed some design and content love, but if that's a specific thing you want to help out with then I'd say you should talk to those responsible for Cabal. Hope you have a good day, Chris On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 11:17 AM, Imants Cekusins <ima...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, I put in a full week in this version. > > If this website is not usable, fair enough. > > Let's wait for the version that suits. > > _______________________________________________ > cabal-devel mailing list > cabal-devel@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel > -- Chris Allen Currently working on http://haskellbook.com _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel