Hi,

​As a long-time member here, I recall many *many* different attempts to
redesign the website. Three in memory, which is several years. Probably
more if I looked through my archives.

The model is that someone gets fed up with the current design and mentions
it on this list. There's some discussion and then everyone basically agrees
that the old design is lacking at least somewhat, but there forms a schism
between those who want to update the old site and those who want to start
over.

Usually, it devolves into the start-over people just going ahead and making
the remake, hoping it will be adopted. The result is semi-promising, but
since it is feature-deficient, no one wants to convert everything (and the
website maintainer(s) remained basically quiet throughout the whole process
anyway). Since there was no commitment to use it, the remake eventually
dies and everyone forgets about it in disgust.

Then, each time, I post a message like this and hope people will choose a
different model this time.

Ian

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