Website tweaks bring more life and usability to the homepage

neysx · Retired Dev Joined: 27 Jan 2003 Posts: 795

This forums thread is for discussion of the www.gentoo.org posting, "Website tweaks bring more life and usability to the homepage." Post your comments and suggestions here.

aidanjt · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 10:03 am Post subject:

Awesome, now I have a reason to visit w.g.o beyond looking up offical docs.

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DanZ · n00b Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 26 Location: Erie PA USA

I like that there is more information, but maybe it could be more consolidated? It alternates between GLSAs and blog posts and I think readability would be improved if they could be grouped together somehow..

All in all, it's a good improvement.

aidanjt · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 10:30 am Post subject:

Moonboots · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Dec 2006 Posts: 79

Yes, i like it

rane · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 10:45 am Post subject:

It's really nice. Thanks guys (especially Xavier and Donnie) for your hard work on this thing.

Hwoarang · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 10:52 am Post subject:

I do like it :lol:

. Great job guys

( although I miss newsletters

)

Jokey_ · Developer Joined: 24 Jan 2006 Posts: 34 Location: Germany

maybe I'm mistaken but where's the big difference between "Community" and "Get involved"? They almost show the same links, so why not folding it into "Get involved"?

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rogerx · n00b Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Posts: 46

Seems GSLA, Blog Posts, Packages should be on sub-pages of the Main News Page.

ie.

Main News Page (usually monthly notices etc)

I enjoy looking at the GSLA News every now & then (mainly only the popular GSLA news) and I also enjoy the Popular blog posts.

I only like to hear package notifications when something popular is unmasked such as GNOME (or KDE if you must).

(blah... this wiki list code would provide a better hierarchy layout. :-/ )
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djanderson · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 2:04 pm Post subject: Nice!

I've been using the beta front page for a few weeks... what an improvement. It's become one of my daily stops. Great job devs!

vadimk · n00b Joined: 24 Jun 2003 Posts: 11

I like it.

I don't like the "Other". Should't be any "other". Something meaninful instead.
For example:

dot ORG
[list=]Developers List
Developers Map
Projects
Council
Foundation[/list]

Gentoo Store goes to Community, right after Sponsors.

Search! I can't find wish list. I would put Search into wish list.

Never liked flying plate or whatever it is...

AllenJB · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 4:47 pm Post subject:

terminallymortal · n00b Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 25

The blog posts, new packages and GLSAs don't show up in the rss feed:
http://www.gentoo.org/rdf/en/gentoo-news.rdf
Is there an alternate feed?

dberkholz · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 5:10 pm Post subject:

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Naib · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 6:56 pm Post subject:

niiiice
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Etal · Veteran Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 1580

Thanks! A bit cluttered, but better than it was before.
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Ormaaj · Guru Joined: 28 Jan 2008 Posts: 312

Its awesome. I love it!

nigelz · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 10:36 pm Post subject:

Good Job.

This is much better.

Can you also add the search back to
http://packages.gentoo.org/

Just like
http://packages.larrythecow.org/

eclipsefan · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 11:40 pm Post subject:

Firstly, good job! Thanks for all your work. Now this place is more useable.

But I don't think that putting everything together is a good idea. In my opinion, homepage should be a brief review of every action and event in the "Gentoo world". Maybe you should try to create some kind of sections, for example new packages or blog post. The point is to put it together in one place. I'm also thinking about some calendar, the place where we can see every coming event like Bugdays or council meetings. What do you think? Of course I appreciate every change, it's much better than it used to be.

One more time - thank you!
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snoopboi · n00b Joined: 29 Jan 2009 Posts: 4

Nice, thanks very much for that hard work. I'm sure many here appreciate as evidenced.

dirtyepic · Developer Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 1614 Location: sk.ca

i likes it
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d2_racing · Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 2:38 am Post subject:

I like it too

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GameTheory · n00b Joined: 06 Aug 2006 Posts: 19

Nice work and a good idea!

It helped me find a newly released package (tivodecoder) and I also find it interesting to read the developers' blogs
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toon · Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 7:58 am Post subject:

Very nice indeed.
The inactivity on the primary Gentoo website could be interpreted as a decline in activity, or even the approaching death of Gentoo.

But there is one "but" (isn't there always?):
With this new approach we've lost the channel for publicizing official messages.
Well, they can still be posted, but they'll "drown" in the avalanche of other information.
Any thoughts on that?

Toon.