This is not a forum, it's a bridge to a traditional mailing list that can be found here:
https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list Or you can use the archives to see threaded conversations: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list This website is _not_ run by the official GIMP team - that can be found at https://wwe.gimp.org. I suggest you have a look at the official website and check out the user documentation (help) and tutorials there. On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 8:01 AM Boxman <for...@gimpusers.com> wrote: > Man, I'm having trouble understanding the layout of this website and > forums, as > well as the design philosophy behind GIMP user interface. > For starters, on the home page its hard to tell what the content is when > so much > of it looks like advertisements. Then, on the forums, only bits and pieces > of > them are shown. I don't see any display of the overall listing of posts and > responses as we get with other forums. Although I found a longer list of > just > post topics, most of them were labled as awaiting moderator approval. Not > much > help. > > Even in making this post, I got confused at the lack of a "post" button. > Instead, there is a captcha box that looks like an ad directly above a > real ad > that has > TWO captcha words in it. Which one am I to use? Took me 4 tries to get it > right, > not knowing whether they were case sensitive. Then, outside the box, in > tiny > letters is a button "create discussion," > > What I am saying is that it is so radically different that I find it very > hard > to use. There must be some point behind the design of layout, but I'm not > getting it. Like GIMP itself, I don't understand why the developers would > want > to create something so different from what we are familiar with, and have > invested huge amounts of time learning, so that to use GIMP we now have to > relearn everything we thought we knew. This situation is really giving me > second thoughts about whether I want to go through with this steep > re-education > curve unless there is some great benefit here that I fail to understand. > > While I appreciate the huge voluntary effort that made in creating a free > app, > and it is not my intention to take anything away from that, I just can't > comprehend why it was done the way it was. It seems to me its radical > differences won't do much to attract new users. > > -- > Boxman (via www.gimpusers.com/forums) > _______________________________________________ > gimp-user-list mailing list > List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org > List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list > List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list > -- Pat David GPG: 66D1 7CA6 8088 4874 946D 18BD 67C7 6219 89E9 57AC _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
