On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 2:19 AM, Eelco Dolstra <[email protected]> wrote:
> Obligatory link: http://shouldiuseacarousel.com/ > To be fair, this carousel doesn't stop on mouseover, and it complains that users don't interact with them. I see carousels more as a highlighter for lazy visitors. They should be visual, contain few words, and repeat what's on the page elsewhere. They're like the ad space in a subway station - peripheral information infusion. Anyway :) To recap the conversation so far: Only agreements: - "Help" should be "Documentation" => Pull request sent - Nixpkgs should be more visible - I propose splitting the NixOS blurb between Nixpkgs and NixOS equally, with [Learn More] buttons on each Under discussion: - The front page is serving new visitors and active users, it should pick one. - Front page mostly for active users: https://www.archlinux.org/ http://www.gentoo.org/ - Front page mostly for discovery/downloads: http://videolan.org http://mozilla.org http://foundation.zurb.com/ - Mix: http://www.gnome.org/ http://kde.org/ http://www.libreoffice.org/ - I prefer the Gnome setup: A blurb for gnome+more info/download, a small section of news, and links to parts of the site specialized in each. Contention: - *For project discovery, a 2-minute video is excellent. I've spent many a 2-5 minute with colleagues watching a video about some project we were discovering. * - Several people dislike videos, and the conversation centered about 20+minute videos. - I really mean TWO minutes. You click, you get a whirlwind tour of nixpkgs and nixos, done. - Highlights could be: - install another version of something side-by-side with the one in your aging distribution, in a few keystrokes - ls -l /bin /sbin /usr on NixOS - nothing! - Upgrade from 14.04 to unstable - and go back! - Environments: Python 2/3, Ruby, Haskell? (don't know much about these) Wout.
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