Dear Debian team, I would like to provide my personal feedback on/feeling about the new web pages. Let me state that I am a rather traditionalist and I browse almost exclusively using desktop PC.
FEEDBACK/OPINION: I understand that these pages may be easier to browse while using mobile phone/tablet. Unfortunately, most of the information is now hidden and requires searching it, more mouse-clicks/loading more pages. >From this point of view, they are significantly less effective. The "streamlined" design is I know one cannot stop the changes, but I would strongly like to encourage you to keep the old design alive in parallel so that it is easy to switch to the - IMHO - much more usable old design when one wishes to do so. I have read some comments on a not-only-Linux news web-pages (in Czech) https://www.abclinuxu.cz/zpravicky/debian-v-listopadu-spusti-nove-webove-stranky and the users have expressed similar concerns/opinions, e.g. https://www.abclinuxu.cz/zpravicky/debian-v-listopadu-spusti-nove-webove-stranky#27 translates to: "Hm, this is exactly the type of web-pages that I always leave because they are not well-arranged and they give a little sense at first sight." I agree with that comment as I often turn to www-search in order to find the information I need when I encounter similar web-pages. This typically happens if I need to find some information related to Ubuntu. SUGGESTIONS: 1) The exclamation marks are not necessary, they are distracting and forced. 2) I would prefer that the top-left "menu" contains more items than the current 4: Debian, Blog, Micronews, Planet I would love to see most of the original structure reproduced OR add a switch to more detailed arrangement closer the original layout. Kind regards, Martin Zouhar