On 22 February 2010 23:23, Martin Pilkington <[email protected]> wrote:
>> In particular on the home page the only option is "get started" and >> (much less bold) "find projects." "Get started" actually means "host >> your project on Launchpad" but I think many users actually want to >> "get started" with asking for help with Launchpad or reporting a bug >> in Ubuntu. So perhaps we can either make the search box just do a >> global site search, or add some buttons for particular tasks. > > I'm of two minds about this. Part of me agrees that it needs to be more > general, but a bigger part of me questions whether users just wanting to file > a bug or get help will go via the home page. Their most likely avenues of > getting to the project will be either via a search engine, or via the > project's homepage. I could be completely wrong on this, but I'd wager that > almost everyone typing launchpad.net in their browser is wanting to find out > about launchpad itself. If I was to submit a bug or have a support question > for bzr for example, I would go to bzr's homepage and then follow the links > to the launchpad project. istm that we should have some usage data to address this: how popular is launchpad.net/ as a landing page compared to a project-specific page; what do people click on this page; what do they type in the box; what links do they follow from that page; what search terms do they use to arrive at that page. Also, making that box be a general search box can probably only be an improvement. If you type "gnome do" you'll probably still go to the same page. -- Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/> _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
