On Thursday, November 05, 2015 03:40:31 PM Ian wrote: > Also, I think the current site is worse than the version during testing due > to the placement of the donation bar, which it is clear is causing > significant confusion.
The main goal with the new large bar is having people see it since it is an emergency fundraiser since we're unable to pay me... So due to the emergency it ought to be an eye-catcher and thus IMHO is fine to be the first thing on the page as it is now. Wikipedia has also had the donation request as the first thing on the page for their previous few yearly fundraisers. They're supposed to know what they're doing - they usually need millions of dollars. With regards to the "it is impolite to first ask for money and only afterwards have the download button" criticism which was mentioned somewhere: We should grow a spine and realize that it is not impolite. We've been giving away free software for 16 years, at a total of > 350 000 lines of code now. Thats a lot of free stuff. We *CAN* ask for money; and we can ask first place during emergency situations. Giving away free software is not something which people should take for granted - everything in life usually costs money. We're still in the very high positive space of karma :) However, as someone said elsewhere, what *could* be done is trimming some of the large empty spaces on the page. That would improve the visibility of the "What is Freenet?" section without moving the bar out of the focus. -- hopstolive (keyword for Ians spam filter)
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