Matthijs Melissen wrote:
The website changes have been announced on the talk mailing list
before it went live:
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2013-November/068555.html
'Nearly ready to roll' is not 'will go live on'!
Had I had a little more notice I would have grabbed an html dump of the old site
... Can you provide a link to the ANNOUNCEMENT that the new version was going live?
(And yes, before it went live, many people suggested to remove the
Welcome box as well.)
And the response was 'we will not change it!' so why ask for comments when the
changes were already a done deal?
MOST other projects maintain the older style of site in parallel with such a
major overhaul. At least then we could access the older version if there WAS a
problem and there is no real overhead to adding a link to the older code. If the
change was made without maintaining a version of the old site in parallel then
we need to change the management process! Some projects/services have even
rolled back changes where they prove unpopular, or simply failed, so NOT
providing a legacy link seems dictatorial? At least we can still access potlatch
in place of Id so the principle has already been adopted here.
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