On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Dave Smith wrote: >> As with the whole Jabber philosophy, we don't need a "big jabber.org >> community site", we need several smaller sites with good setups - I >> think of a *good* WWW presentation of the major Jabber servers [...] > It's not cheap to host a "central" Jabber server. So far, we've been > lucky -- good people have donated bandwidth for jabber.org [...] > Besides, the whole _point_ of the Jabber project is that there should > be a host (pardon the pun) of decentralized Jabber servers, like email.
Either I misunderstand you or you misunderstood me. That's exactly what I meant: I don't say "let's make jabber.org more colorful!", I say "the way to go is to make the major Jabber servers more user friendly". Take a look at the WWW pages of the Jabber server listed on http://www.jabber.org/user/publicservers.php Most servers do not look user friendly at all from a "WWW" point of view - no information on the web sites, no client downloads, some even don't have an easy-to-find website at all... I think *that's* a problem, not jabber.org being a bit technical (in fact I think it presents a very good mix and is easy to navigate so absolutely no need to change jabber.org's basic WWW design [again]). Perhaps it would be a good idea to have some kind of quality requirements for a Jabber server to be listed in the public servers list. As a start, I don't think it's good to have sites listed there that don't run a decent WWW page at all. Another requirement could be that there should be links to the User Guide/General FAQ/End-User FAQ (time for i18n). Or, as a start, removing defunct servers from the list would also be good ;-). I'll try to contribute a bit to make the list better. Regards _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
