On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 03:42:14PM -0700, Murray Stokely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was witnessed plotting the following conspiracy: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 06:15:41PM -0400, Dan Ponte wrote: > > One idea is to revert to the old design, which suited people's needs > > just fine. However, I doubt that will happen. > > Uhm, it didn't suit people's needs just fine. It was total crap with > dozens of disorganized links all over the front page and second level > pages topping 100k as they had just grown larger and larger over time > and noone had stepped back to look at how bad it all was for someone > coming to the site for the first time to find any useful information. > I've had so many people ask 'where did all that new content come from > about advocacy and such?'. The answer is it was there before just > hidden in the complexity. > > This is not the appropriate forum for armchair web design discussions. > If you are interested in tweaking the new design then join the -www@ > list. Better yet, you could have participated in the redesign > discussions there over the past 6 months. Patches will be addressed > first. Second will be specific suggestions about regressions in > useability (many have been fixed within hours of being brought up on > the www@ list). I doubt you'll find anyone interested in acting on > any 'I liked it better before' mails. > > Thanks for Kris and others on this list trying to keep things specific > and constructive. Let's let this thread die on stable@ and move it to > www@ where it belongs. > > - Murray Admittedly, having some of the more obscure pages come into plain view is a nice thing. However, I am speaking mostly of the increase in number of clicks it takes to get to frequently-visited pages. And the new "look" is another thing I have a few gripes with. I guess the good thing to do would be to take this up on www, per your suggestion. Ultimately, the goal is to make things better; I just didn't feel that the current ways of doing things are the best means to that end. -Dan -- Dan Ponte http://www.theamigan.net/ Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor. -- Edgar R. Fiedler
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