[Nix-dev] New website

[Wout Mertens]

So concretely:

   - "Help" should be "Documentation" or "Docs", I tripped over the same
   thing
   - I miss the very visible introduction to each of the components
      - Nix begets Nixpkgs begets NixOS begets NixOps (so is DisNix dead?).
      - The Projects pulldown could be converted into vertical tabs on the
      index page
      - A carousel could be used to highlight each: Logo, blurb, link to
      the project page
   - I see no mention of Nixpkgs at all, while I think that's an excellent
   foot in the door.
      - "Just install this thing without any dependencies, on any
      distribution, and all your installation woes are solved!".
      - I know you guys live in a NixOS world, but I'm still trying to
      convince management of even using Nixpkgs on Ubuntu 12.04
   - For project discovery, a 2-minute video is excellent. I've spent many
   a 2-5 minute with colleagues watching a video about some project we were
   discovering.
      - I suppose I could make one but I feel unqualified :)
   - The Twitter stream should be in a shorter box but below the blogs,
   then commits, ordering news in order of most likely use to homepage
   visitors.
      - I'm reasoning that visitors want to learn about NixOS, and those
      who know go to github or use the mailing list
   - Shouldn't monitor.nixos.org and status.nixos.org also be linked? How
   about together with Hydra in a Status dropdown?

(Dis|A)greements?

Wout.

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Jay Sulzberger <jays at panix.com> wrote:

>
>
>
> On Fri, 30 May 2014, M. P. Ashton <data at imap.cc> wrote:
>
> > I don't mind the new website at all. I think it looks nice, and it does
> > seem more professional than the old one.
> >
> > It also has a more promotional bent, which may or may not fit the
> > project's goals -- I don't know if world domination is an aim for the
> > project right now, but the new website seems to satisfy that goal much
> > better than the old one.
> >
> > I don't care for websites sending me to external servers, mostly because
> > the load time tends to become much longer, and occasionally the external
> > servers don't cooperate. But for me it's not such a big deal. I'm pretty
> > sure Google and NSA and Facebook know more about me than I do, even if I
> > studiously use DuckDuckGo (which is probably a trigger word).
>
> I think the website should not, by design, send tracking
> information to any third party.
>
> We may be being tracked with exquisite care and by means of
> delightfully subtle statistics, but formal collaboration is
> different from acquiescence.  We may not actively fight, on this
> front, the battle against the Panopticon Machine of the
> Englobulators, but neither need we give them for free what is
> ours, and not theirs, by right.
>
> oo--JS.
>
>
> >
> > Someone said that they couldn't find the manual -- I found it very
> > quickly under "HELP". I usually look for "Documentation" first, but
> > "Help" seemed a reasonable second guess.
> >
> > So, thanks for working on this -- I appreciate it, FWIW.
> >
> > --mpa
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