On 11/07/2015 06:47 PM, Ian wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 5:38 PM, xor <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Together with the idea "a darknet-thing should have a dark website to make
>> users feel like they did find the darknet", I'd hope we can move on to
>> working
>> on other stuff for a while?
>>
> 
> I can't agree.  The research tells us that light on dark is bad.  We've had
> direct feedback on the current design supporting this.  We also have the
> fact that not a single popular website uses a light on dark color scheme.
> I really don't think there can be any doubt that a light-on-dark color
> scheme is hurting, not helping us.

Noted. We will fix it. Building a color scheme from the color of the
download button on the website someone suggested in the Reddit feedback
thread gives: http://paletton.com/#uid=13u0u0krdJ0gpQRm3MwAyFSDErs

> My personal opinion is that there are critical problems with the website as
> it stands right now, and I don't think we can afford to bury our heads in
> the sand about it.

I don't think we are ignoring the problem. What we are is all
volunteers. Many people have contributed changes and translations to
this website. Personally I've been contributing a great deal of time to
the project lately - above 20 hours in the past week - which is not
sustainable so I will be stepping back in both the near and medium term.

> Yes, I admit that most of these problems I could and should have pointed
> out earlier, but that doesn't change the fact that they are valid concerns.
> 
> Make no mistake, a bad website will kill our project.
...
> I hate to say it, but I'm really starting to think that, while the previous
> website wasn't good, the current website might be worse, and we would have
> a much much better website if we had just stuck to the default Bootstrap
> CSS (which is what most people do).

I strongly disagree, and I really wish you would have brought up such
strong opinions before this website went live. The old website was
designed in 2009 and looked it. I don't understand why you chose not to
bring this up earlier, but I agree that not doing so doesn't invalidate
your observations. What it does do make it a lot more time-sensitive to
address, which is stressful.

This new website is far, far easier to modify and translate. Its
infrastructure is superior. It'll be way easier to fix its color scheme.

- Steve

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