On Saturday, 19 April 2014 at 22:38:31 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
I had a brief thought of that too, but I quickly dismissed it because it really *isn't* corporate-looking...
To me it looks like a typical start-up design. It does not peek my interest in the 2 seconds you need to tell me that this is an active programming community with many participants and that I can join the ranks if I want to. I find the current the design to peak my interest because it isn't typical, but there are better ways to do it. I think golang and rust do that well, by luring you into a tutorial.
Push github links, tutorial links, download and latest activity with member names.
I also find the big highly saturated logo in desaturated context annoying. It draws too much attention and makes the design unbalanced. That's what you do for branding. Put that saturation on where you want people to look. The download/start tour/etc buttons.
2. *All* the text across the entire page is completely vacuous, highly subjective *at best*, and generally carries no real meaning whatsoever.
Thats one thing I dislike about the current frontpage. Wall-of-text does not make me curious. I do like the ability to execute D code though.
