On Tuesday, 15 December 2015 at 22:17:33 UTC, anonymous wrote:
What "works" means is still debatable. Is it a goal to get users to the download quickly, or are other things equally or more important?
Download is the first step in your tunnel. If one can't get to the download step, one can't use D. And if one can't use D, one doesn't care about everything else on the website.
Also, we don't really have the resources to do studies on these things, do we? So when you say that it's obviously this way and someone else says it's obviously that way, we're back to opinions.
Ignoring metrics is always more expensive. Also, I'm not stating opinion and preference here. Personally, I don't care about the download button, I already downloaded things. But that's a classic tunnel optimization.
Also, to reiterate, a more noticeable download button is not off the table. I pulled back all style changes in that PR to focus on the functionality first (which I kinda gave up on by now, too, because it turned out to be more difficult than I had hoped).
