On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-googlegroups.620...@mired.org> wrote: >> Not until after they go there once or twice, find confusing project >> pages with no clear starting point for prospective end users, and form >> an opinion of the site. :) > > Yup. Those pages are about as well organized as every other page one > finds on the internet, so they wind up forming the exact same opinion > as they do of most sites. If someone takes the time to do a good site > design, it doesn't matter who hosts it. If they don't, putting it on a > custom domain won't magically make it better. For instance, try and > figure out how to install the Cyanogenmod software based on > www.cyanogenmod.com.
But that's neglecting a crucial biasing factor: with project-hosting sites it's very easy to just slap together a few text blurbs for the front page and carry on your business using the tracker and repository; with regular web hosting you need to think a bit and actually come up with some page content, and you probably wouldn't have bothered to get regular web hosting if you weren't intending to. So if there's a regular .com site it's got a higher probability of being easy for end-users to navigate versus a randomly-selected sourceforge page. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
