Good catch! Whenever I want a past version I already know to click on the past archives link and didn't even notice that the page disappears!
Actually, when I google for "apache solr", the second hit is the downloads page and if you go there directly it doesn't automatically go to the current version..... Personally I like not automatically redirecting.... Erick On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 8:01 AM, Shawn Heisey <[email protected]> wrote: > When somebody is looking for an older release of Solr, currently it is > somewhat non-obvious how to find it. The "download" link on the Solr > website *briefly* lands on a page with the proper link, but it only > takes three seconds for this page to disappear and be replaced with a > "mirror chooser" page where only the latest release can be found. > > I see two solutions, and we might want to consider implementing both: > > 1) Increase the delay on the download page before redirecting to the > mirror chooser (15-30 seconds) or eliminate the automatic redirect > entirely and just put a link to the mirror chooser on the page. > > 2) Place a link on the mirror chooser page for the archives. Since this > page is automatically generated by a script, I am not sure how much > control we have over what shows up there. > > Normally I think links on the word "here" are bad form, because they are > not easily located by site visitors. An archives link on the mirror > chooser page is an example of a time when it just might be appropriate. > We could have something on the mirror chooser page that says "For older > versions, visit the archives here". In this case, it's actually a > *good* thing to make that particular link require a second look -- so > that a typical user that *does* want the latest version will not be > drawn to the link. Perhaps Infra could do this on the mirror chooser > page for all projects. I can open an issue with Infra. > > Thanks, > Shawn > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
