On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 13:51:40 -0500
Ken Wesson <kwess...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Mike Meyer
> <mwm-keyword-googlegroups.620...@mired.org> wrote:
> >> Not until after they go there once or twice, find confusing project
> >> pages with no clear starting point for prospective end users, and form
> >> an opinion of the site. :)
> >
> > Yup. Those pages are about as well organized as every other page one
> > finds on the internet, so they wind up forming the exact same opinion
> > as they do of most sites. If someone takes the time to do a good site
> > design, it doesn't matter who hosts it. If they don't, putting it on a
> > custom domain won't magically make it better. For instance, try and
> > figure out how to install the Cyanogenmod software based on
> > www.cyanogenmod.com.
>
> But that's neglecting a crucial biasing factor: with project-hosting
> sites it's very easy to just slap together a few text blurbs for the
> front page and carry on your business using the tracker and
> repository; with regular web hosting you need to think a bit and
> actually come up with some page content, and you probably wouldn't
> have bothered to get regular web hosting if you weren't intending to.
> So if there's a regular .com site it's got a higher probability of
> being easy for end-users to navigate versus a randomly-selected
> sourceforge page.
Disagree, and already provided a counter-example.
<mike
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