Vladimír Čunát writes: > I might be in minority, but the current layout does seem weird: > - The first half of what you see is focused on newcomers (those who > know nothing about the project). > - The second half contains various types of news. > So we have two halves with nontrivial content that are useful to > *different* sets of people. Newcomers will hardly get good idea from > recent news (as it contains mostly differential information), and the > introductory half will mostly be useless to anyone but newcomers :-)
That's something I noticed too. When I open nixos.org on my screen, the 'What's NixOS' part of the page actually drowns in news. I'd prefer a much shorter news section pinned to the bottom of the page, which a noticeable whitespace to keep them separated. Right now, the news/introduction ratio is ~3/1, which is never good for a page which primary goal is to inform people about *what* NixOS is. Another thing is the giant header introducing NixOS: My brain automatically skips such big fonts, as I actually find them harder to read than "normal" sized text. It looks like it has to be this gigantic or else it would drown as well. > Personally, I would probably convert the homepage to a simply structured > collection of most useful links, naturally starting with a big fat one > like "Introduction to NixOS.org", so we would "separate" this specific > group and could provide them *more* information (the half-page is only > an advertisement, and can't give a basic idea about the project). Direct > link to each of those "projects" would be nice, as IMO they're used a lot. That's pretty much how it was on the old site. Imo, that was really useful and a super nice way to get an overview of each of the projects. And in a decent font size, too. > News: currently it's more than one screenful of information (for me), so > I would again separate it into nixos.org/news page. BTW, RSS/Atom are > very useful for such things, and I see none on the homepage or planet. > Some build status summary might also be on that page, like the > timestamps+revisions of the latest channel bumps. > > > Videos: I really prefer well-structured linked text (with images) to > videos. IMO a text of comparable value is much easier to produce. I > understand that videos are better at keeping attention of some people... > BTW we *do* have recordings of several introductory Nix(OS) talks, > notably the FOSDEM one. > https://nixos.org/wiki/Nix(OS)_in_the_media_and_presentations I don't think any video can ever replace an useful description. It can extend, or better explain some topics, but imo it's *much* easier to read a short pitch about something instead of watching a 20 minute video. *Especially* when it's about something as technical as NixOS. -- Moritz Ulrich
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