Re: [Nix-dev] New website

2014-05-31 Thread Ertugrul Söylemez
On Fri, 30 May 2014 13:27:00 -0700 M. P. Ashton d...@imap.cc wrote: I don't mind the new website at all. I think it looks nice, and it does seem more professional than the old one. If you need to look like some Enter Prise Service (typos intended) to deserve the professional label, I'm happy

Re: [Nix-dev] New website

2014-05-31 Thread Wout Mertens
So concretely: - Help should be Documentation or Docs, I tripped over the same thing - I miss the very visible introduction to each of the components - Nix begets Nixpkgs begets NixOS begets NixOps (so is DisNix dead?). - The Projects pulldown could be converted into vertical

Re: [Nix-dev] New website

2014-05-31 Thread Michael Raskin
- Help should be Documentation or Docs, I tripped over the same thing Actually, the design i too like GitHub where we have learned that the top bar is about _site platform_, not about the project in question. I don't know whether this is a problem for many others but it may be that people

Re: [Nix-dev] New website

2014-05-31 Thread Vladimír Čunát
This is very hard, and it's certainly impossible to satisfy everyone, but still, if we try hard to be objective... On 05/31/2014 09:10 AM, Wout Mertens wrote: So concretely: * Help should be Documentation or Docs, I tripped over the same thing Yes, the word Help is IMO rarely used in

Re: [Nix-dev] New website

2014-05-31 Thread Kirill Elagin
On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Michael Raskin 7c6f4...@mail.ru wrote: Carousels with blurbs are often annoying. You start to read and it switches. Just hover it with your mouse and [if it is implemented properly] it won't switch. I've seen carousels that keep switching if you hover them

Re: [Nix-dev] New website

2014-05-31 Thread Michael Raskin
Carousels with blurbs are often annoying. You start to read and it switches. Just hover it with your mouse and [if it is implemented properly] it won't switch. I've seen carousels that keep switching if you hover them two or three times in my life. That's braindead. Don't know, I open a site

Re: [Nix-dev] New website

2014-05-31 Thread Mathijs Kwik
Kirill Elagin kirela...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Michael Raskin 7c6f4...@mail.ru wrote: Carousels with blurbs are often annoying. You start to read and it switches. Just hover it with your mouse and [if it is implemented properly] it won't switch. I've seen

Re: [Nix-dev] New website

2014-05-31 Thread Moritz Ulrich
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

Re: [Nix-dev] New website

2014-05-31 Thread Moritz Ulrich
And another thing: Is it really a good idea to have april fools jokes on the front page? When NiJS was announced, I actually fell for it at first. I don't think showing this to newcomers helps. -- Moritz Ulrich pgpckfwwrziLs.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Nix-dev] New website

2014-05-31 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 05/31/2014 12:22 PM, Moritz Ulrich wrote: And another thing: Is it really a good idea to have april fools jokes on the front page? When NiJS was announced, I actually fell for it at first. I don't think showing this to newcomers helps. Yes, people will typically fail to notice the

Re: [Nix-dev] New website

2014-05-31 Thread Sander van der Burg - EWI
I think people should write more stuff. Then it will disappear from the frontpage really quickly. From: nix-dev-boun...@lists.science.uu.nl [nix-dev-boun...@lists.science.uu.nl] on behalf of Vladimír Čunát [vcu...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2014

Re: [Nix-dev] New website

2014-05-31 Thread Rob Vermaas
Hi, interesting to see so many opinions on the new website. In stead of mentioning issues here in the mailing list, which is imho fine for general discussion, but hard to track specific issues, I would suggest people, who have (specific) issues/problems with the site, start making issues for

Re: [Nix-dev] New website

2014-05-31 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, On 31/05/14 10:19, Michael Raskin wrote: Carousels with blurbs are often annoying. You start to read and it switches. Obligatory link: http://shouldiuseacarousel.com/ - Shouldn't monitor.nixos.org and status.nixos.org also be linked? Yes, monitor should absolutely be linked from

Re: [Nix-dev] New website

2014-05-31 Thread M. P. Ashton
On Fri, May 30, 2014, at 11:49 PM, Ertugrul Söylemez wrote: On Fri, 30 May 2014 13:27:00 -0700 M. P. Ashton d...@imap.cc wrote: I don't mind the new website at all. I think it looks nice, and it does seem more professional than the old one. If you need to look like some Enter Prise