On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 10:12:26AM +0000, lumin wrote: > On Mon, 2017-05-15 at 11:19 +0200, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote: > > Our users are really complaining about our look&feel in the web and we > > should address it. > > I'm looking forward to a new design of our homepage, but I'm not > able to help since not familiar to this field. > > Take a look at the homepages of major distros:
> https://www.opensuse.org/ Oh no! Kill it! Kill it with fire! Quickly! > https://www.centos.org/ > https://www.ubuntu.com/ > https://getfedora.org/ Also abysmal. > https://manjaro.org/ > https://linuxmint.com/ Not good either. > https://www.archlinux.org/ > https://gentoo.org/ These are ok. > Especially look at the homepage of Gentoo. Some of you must > remember the old gentoo homepage, but now gentoo has a way much > prettier face. Then look at ours > > https://www.debian.org/ Not that different from Gentoo's. What's the problem you're seeing? > We are the last major distro that move to systemd as the > default init system. And now we are the last major distro > that keeps an old design of homepage. The response here seems obvious, but I won't spell it out :p > Debian is a community that driven by volunteers. I believe > volunteers are working hard for community at the points > they are interested in. I guess, possibly there are too few > volunteers able/intend to update the design, so the homepage is > just kept as is. If it ain't broken... (speaking about layout, not the contents. Improvements to the latter are always worth some effort.). > If none of the volunteers is willing to contribute a new > design, what about spend some money to hire several worker > working on this. The current fad seems to be javascript-only blind-unfriendly elinks-unfriendly bandwidth-wasting monstrosities. I'd really prefer a website written by a programmer over one made by a "designer". A good page is one that lets you find information quickly, not one that forces you to watch animations. Meow! -- Don't be racist. White, amber or black, all beers should be judged based solely on their merits. Heck, even if occasionally a cider applies for a beer's job, why not? On the other hand, corpo lager is not a race.