Hi,
I like the new website a lot. Great Job Ufuk!
Here are some things that I notices while checking it out:
General:
- I find the text area a bit too wide for comfortable reading, especially
for long texts such as blog posts or the how to contribute guide.
Front page:
- Stack Figure: Don't stack libraries. It suggests that they depend on each
other. Can we put them vertical like on our slides?
- Links in latest blog posts not working
- The frontpage / first sentence does not make clear that Flink is also for
Batch (<- Same point Robert raised)
- I am always suspicious if someone says "real-time"
- Getting started does not link to the Quickstarts / Maven archetypes &
only shows Maven dependencies for Java API
Feature page:
- Data is not always "streamed all the way" in batch programs. There are
also dams.
- "You can use native Java and Scala data types without packing them into
key-value pairs, logical field addressing, and a wealth of operators." ->
Sentence can be misunderstood ("without packaging [...], logical field
addressing, and a wealth of operators")
- The usual question: Java or Scala code snippets
FAQ:
- I agree that some of the FAQs are outdated, but I guess more than two are
still relevant. We might think about adding more common questions that we
see on SO or the mailing lists.
Blog:
- Links in the right-side menu of the main blog pages are broken
Blog posts:
- Pictures in some blog posts are too large, IMO (Streaming, Hadoop, Join
post)
2015-05-11 10:20 GMT+02:00 Robert Metzger <rmetz...@apache.org>:
> Amazing work!
> The new site looks really good.
> I like white websites more, they are easier to read.
> Also, its great that you're putting the community on the front page. I hear
> quite often that users like the good support they are getting from the
> mailing lists. I personally experienced other open source communities which
> didn't answer my questions on their list. I think that's not happening in
> our community!
> The blog posts with their dates on the front page show that the project is
> very active.
>
> Some detailed comments:
> - The front page doesn't contain the word "batch" at all. People might be
> confused
> - why is the "Table API" so prominent on the front page? Other staging
> projects like python or the hadoop compat don't get a mention at all.
> - Do you think adding a very little "Beta" badge on the system stack at the
> front page to the beta components would be a good idea? I think we should
> manage the expectations there. ML, gelly and the table API are all not part
> of any official stable release.
> - The disqus comments are missing in the blog
> - The frontpage link to the setup is broken:
> http://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-master/setup/
> - The codetabs.js file contains (and actually logs) "HERE" to the
> javascript console of my browser. Looks like some leftover debugging code.
> - codetabs.js also gets a "Uncaught ReferenceError: $ is not defined" on
> the downloads page.
> - I don't want to put the burden of fixing this onto alone (= I can help
> you), but basically all links to the documentation in the blog are broken.
> For example for the 0.9.0-m1 annoucements, the links to gelly and the table
> api are broken. This issue is independent of this change, but still
> annoying.
> - The link to our twitter account could be more prominent. Maybe on the
> front page?
>
> .. I'll give feedback to the Feature page, once its done ;)
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Ufuk Celebi <u...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I reworked the project website the last couple of days and would like to
> > share the preview:
> >
> > http://uce.github.io/flink-web/
> >
> > I would like to get this in asap. We can push incremental updates at any
> > time, but I think this version is a big improvement over the current
> status
> > quo. If I get some +1s I'll go ahead and update the website today.
> >
> > – Ufuk
>
