On 2026-09-03 12:16, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote:
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By general convention, the download button on a website is the latest
stable.
Indeed.
The latest beta should not be on the front page: the front page is for
the
casual visitor, not the experienced developer.
Well, that's the case when a news section would be useful. ;-) Even
though casual visitor might not want to download the beta / RC,
information about its existence _is_ relevant for them, because it says
that there is tangible progress and a new release should be upcoming.
Possibly, we might add something for cases like this (with clearly
defined lifetime - relevant when there is a new RC, not relevant any
longer when the final release is out)? After all - the new release
should be announced on the main page once available as well, not only by
letting the use find that the download button goes to a different
release, right?
People that look explicitly for a beta will normally go to downloads,
or respons to a mail.
Not necessarily if most of the time there's no relevant beta... ;-)
But you're right that we should put it at least on the downloads page.
Yep.
Tomas
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