Hi,
I think what you're trying to suggest is a more organized view of the
OSFlash menu bar: instead of listing every single OSFlash-hosted
project, a list of categories/tags would be present.
Personally I would support this even though it would require a major overhaul.
Other than preventing an overwhelming of visitors, I believe load
times can be cut, since *every* wiki page contains this (rather long)
list of projects. Since wikis are processor-intensive every
opportunity to shave of that bit of lag should be sized.
Also, project admins only need to update one page (the osflash-hosted
projects page) instead of 2 (the former plus the navigation bar). This
sort of repetitive work, however minimal, should be avoided.
Just my 2 cents worth.
On 8/14/06, g. wygonik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As more of an "outsider" -- someone who keeps an eye on the projects going
> on here, and not someone involved in any of the hosted projects (yet*) -- a
> better defined tag approach would seem to make more sense to me.
>
> That is, if someone interested and new to OSFlash goes to the website and
> looks at the list of projects and their sometimes "quirky" names, they would
> have no idea what any of them did without going to each project
> individually.
>
> Even if seperated by target audience ("developer", "end-user", etc), would
> anyone be able to tell what "Fluge", "fosFORO", "Mikrokosmos", "OFD",
> "Ripple", or "Fling" _do_ if they all happened to be grouped together? But,
> if they were at least better defined by tag, people interested in "GUI" or
> "video" or "framework" would be able to better sort through all the projects
> and only have to browse a few instead of all (even if they overlapped).
>
> Perhaps if it's too much to impliment tags, a simple "View Projects by
> Category" link to another page would do... ??
>
> Just my take. :-)
>
> g.
>
> * = I've got three different projects that i'm debating about releasing as
> OS (one of which already is, just not real "available" atm)... Hopefully
> before too long... :-)
>
> On 8/13/06, Sönke Rohde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > [...]
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I also had such categories in mind.
> But it's true that some projects would match multiple categories and it
> would be hard to find/set the right one.
> So what about tagging the projects and a nice tagcloud on the
> osflash-startpage?
>
> Tags could be: as2, as3, debugging, server, video, flex, ui-framework,
> commandline-tool, generator, compiler, code-library, logging, IDE ...
>
> Cheers,
> Sönke
>
> P.s.
> don't beat me because of the web 2.0 wording ;)
>
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