So I just had a look at the new NixOS website, and I have a major problem with it... I can't find the documentation. And that's as someone who already knows what NixOS is and why I'd want to use it. Worse, anything about NixOps/etc is hidden away in a menu in the top right corner!
I didn't even notice the top bar until I'd gone to look a few more times. Why can't we have a Debian-style "places to go" menu on the front page, front and centre? https://www.debian.org/ Even FreeBSD's is better in terms of being able to figure out where to go. http://www.freebsd.org/ The current front page has a huge amount of fluff, but the call to action (get it) is all wrong; nobody downloads new operating systems on a whim, they want to see examples of what it would do for them. The "getting started" section on the Debian front page goes a long way to fixing this. So basically, what the front page needs is (a) a fairly comprehensive and obvious menu of things a user would want from the site, and (b) links off to places where a new user can find out more. Probably a hook ("NixOS is a Linux distribution which uses a fully declarative package manager and integrated configuration management system, making system configuration and upgrades painless"), maybe a snippet of a configuration.nix showing off how easy it is to set up, say, a simple web server or a desktop environment, and maybe a little widget saying what the current version is + a couple of titles of the latest news articles. I'm not sure the "declarative, reliable, devops-friendly" fluff helps anybody. Just my two cents, Shell On 30 May 2014 14:26, Ertugrul Söylemez <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello there, > > I'm looking at the new website with mixed feelings. Being less static is a > good idea, so I appreciate the news, blog posts and commits sections. On the > other hand it's way uglier and less lucid compared to the old website. These > are minor design issues that we can talk about and fix. > > However, one issue with the new site I would rate as critical: > > As a good web developer NEVER EVER download anything from external servers > unless it is necessary, especially not from entities like Google, Facebook or > Twitter. If at all, do it server-side. The new website unnecessarily > downloads jQuery from the Google servers, not only compromising our privacy, > but also every NoScript or Ghostery user will be told: "This website > compromises your privacy!". And for what? For a dropdown menu? Come on! > You don't even need JavaScript for that. CSS alone can handle it much nicer. > > I have managed to keep my browser from sending my browsing habits to Google > for a long time now. Indeed, I don't even use Google as a search engine > (there's DuckDuckGo). And today my very Linux distribution forces me to > allow access to Google servers. That's not going to happen, so currently I'm > unable to navigate the website at all. This is the top issue, so as kindly > as my current anger allows, I'm asking you to fix this as soon as possible. > I hope I'm not the only privacy-minded NixOS user. > > As SPJ once said, avoid success at all costs, because this is what happens > when you don't. I'm not sure the old website really needed to be replaced, > but since it was, please remove the badies and bring back the goodies. > > Also in this case please don't tell me to send a pull request. This is web > development! What would take the original developer five minutes would take > me hours. > > By the way, the Hydra frontend has the same issue. > > > Greets, > Ertugrul > > -- > Ertugrul Söylemez <[email protected]> > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
