I think manual language selection doesn't represent a huge issue for
users.
If we also take into account that to offer this feature *alone* would
require us to run our own web infrastructure (which represent cost in
money and volunteer time) I think from a cost-benefit perspective it
does seem an alright solution.
Github does seem reliable and it doesn't cost us a cent, but any static
content host would probably work.
Take into account we also are using Github to host most Freenet
repositories AFAIK, so it does seem logical.
Best regards,
On 2016-09-10 19:32, [email protected] wrote:
On Friday, September 09, 2016 12:50:51 PM DC* wrote:
Effectively Github does *not* support Content-negotiation. If we don't
want
to adopt another strategy to serve pages we'll need to stay away from
Github Pages.
Otherwise we'll need to add links to access the site in different
languages. Thus serving content from URLs such
/{de,es,fr}/documentation.html or /documentation.html.{de,es,fr} (or
similar format).
If we use localized URLs (which most static site generators do
support) the
user would require to switch languages manually. We'll need also to
request
changes to the designs to add a language selection menu/selector.
On the other side, we gain in terms of cost (Github pages hosting
doesn't
cost us) and time (we don't need to configure, patch, upgrade any
server).
I think we're better off with this option as money is always a concern
and
should be carefully handled.
Hmm. Wasn't the whole point of re-designing the site to make it more
appealing
to users? Manually having to select the language certainly won't please
them a
lot :|
Websites are an insanely popular thing, so there should be an insane
amount of
website hosters - do we really need to force ourselves to rely on one
specific
one = GitHub? :|
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