Hi, I'm sorry for being too harsh in my initial reply—this is an issue I care strongly about.
On May 25, 2009, at 8:59 PM, Scott Merrill wrote: > > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Arthus Erea <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Frankly, this makes no sense. > > The tone of this reply bothers me. A lot of what we discuss regarding > the Habari home page will be bikeshed issues. We all have strong > preferences, but they're all just that: preferences. On a second reading, the tone bothers me too. I should've taken the time to read it through. (How many times has that happened to me!? :( ) However, I'm not sure these are really bikeshed issues. You're right, there are a lot of bikeshed issues with the site: what color we use, etc. In contrast, I think this is really about setting down the purpose of the site. And I am adamant in that the main purpose of the site should be to: – Entice new users – Provide support for existing users – Integrate the community In my opinion, having our blog front and center doesn't serve any of those purposes especially well. I don't think the #1 thing people come to the site for is to find a list of our most recent releases. I'm not saying we shouldn't have a blog, I just don't think it is the most important reason for the site. The first thing I want a potential user to see isn't: "Today we are pleased to releaseHabari 0.6.2, the latest update to our 0.6 release. This is a modest update which fixes two potential security vulnerabilities. All users are encouraged to update." It's more important that we encourage people to download and learn about Habari—then they can start getting interested in the latest releases. There is absolutely no reason a first-time visitor to the site needs to know about the last 5 releases, as the first thing they learn. I'd much rather tell them our top 5 features. >> It isn't to be a blog, it's to provide information about the >> project. We >> most definitely should NOT make the homepage the blog. > > I actually think we should be displaying blog entries more > prominently. We should show that we're eating our own dogfood, as well > as demonstrating some of the advanced ways our blog software can be > used. Isn't that what the whole site does? I mean, it's not like *any* of the main site isn't powered by Habari. It's just as much "eating our own dogfood" to show off a features list or a >> Tag clouds are useless, distracting, and provide nothing of value >> to the >> project site. > > I personally dislike tagclouds, but I recognize that that's purely a > personal preference. Some people like vanilla ice cream, some people > like chocolate. To say that tag clouds are useless is pretty > grandiose. YOU find them useless. Sure, that's true. But what does it say that both of us find them useless? That's not to say we shouldn't have one. But it's probably best relegated to /blog. Again, sorry for my harsh and rude reaction. ~Morgante --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
