On Sunday 03 October 2004 05:19 pm, Richard Dobson wrote: > > - There should probably be no more than 4 clients in the client listing. > > This > > way it will be possible for the user to make a quick and easy decision. > > It > > would probably be a good idea to mark the topmost item as "recommended" > > with > > a gold border around the entry or something. This way the users don't > > even > > have to think if they don't want to. Offering direct download links > > would also be good, so that you don't confuse users by sending them to a > > foreign website. > > Limiting the amount of clients in the listing to an arbitary value is > probably a bad idea, your idea of what the best clients are maybe very > different from others, what would be better IMO is to have a list of > clients which includes any which pass a certain set of criteria, i.e. > certain features such as disco support would be required, also the list of > clients would be sorted using ratings of the clients submitted by users > (e.g. like this site http://www.dyndns.org/services/dyndns/clients.html) > which allows a more balanced level of opinion of what are "the" best > clients and not what could be an unintentionally biased choice.
Yes, a baseline criteria plus user ratings is a good way to create an unbiased listing. However, I still say this list should be chopped off at a small number like 4 (and actually, I'd be surprised if even 4 clients qualify on each platform anyway, depending on the criteria). Maybe there could be a way to view the full list if desired, but we would present the trimmed list to newcomers. Imagine if the listing was just the jabber.org list with ratings. Yikes, I think we'd scare everyone away. :) -Justin _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev
