On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 17:42, Alan Evans <ame.fed...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/5/26 Máirín Duffy <du...@fedoraproject.org>: > > On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 13:22 -0700, Alan Evans wrote: > >> 2010/5/26 Máirín Duffy <du...@fedoraproject.org>: > >> > The links you referenced were removed quite explicitly in the design. > >> > The assumption was that if someone understands how to use bittorrent, > >> > jigdo, and mirror lists, they are more than capable of making use of a > >> > search engine to find them. > >> > >> I hope that this thread is a demonstration that folks who *could* use > >> a search engine may have been well-served by a page design that didn't > >> deliberately exclude them. > > > > How about the silent group of folks who looked at the old Fedora get > > page, had no clue what half of the jargon on the page went, and then > > browsed away to look at another distro or worse just stuck with Windows > > or OS X? > > You seem to think that the only alternative to completely excluding > the more technical options is to scatter incomprehensible jargon all > over the page. I'm not sure how you came to this conclusion. > > How about something like this at the bottom of the page?: > > "Users looking for the Torrent downloads should go [link]here[/link]. > If you don't know what a Torrent is then it's not what you want." > > That would have at least kept me (and probably many others) from > scanning the page over and over again for ten minutes looking for what > I just knew must be there. > > -Alan > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > First of all: I do appreciate all the effort in making the download page easier to newbies, and I recognize a lot of thought has been spent in doing so. However, it doesn't mean the result can't be improved, even if the improvements will only be perceived by a portion of the audience. I agree with Alan that it wouldn't hurt to have this extra link at the bottom of the page, I don't think this would distract newbies considering they should be attracted to the big blue "Download Now!" button in the middle of the screen =) I must say I also spent a couple of minutes going back and forth trying to find a link to the torrents (... sure, I could have Googled right away -- which I ended up doing after visiting the "Formats" page for the 3rd time ;-)) Just my $0.02. Regards, Andre
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