Shell: why don't you make a mockup or create a pull request: https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-homepage Ertugrul: Looks like your wish was granted: https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-homepage/commit/6803987bce4ff4bca1a5482ef25bfa99f4023538
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Shell Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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