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Kernel page index?Kernel page index?Posted Feb 1, 2007 4:05 UTC (Thu) by proski (subscriber, #104)In reply to: Kernel page index? by corbet Parent article: An LWN reader survey Wow! There are several articles I'm going to read right away. How come I didn't know about it? I see it now. It's the "kernel" link on top. Too bad many sites put advertising banners there, so many seasoned web surfers have a blind spot right on top of the page. Many kernel articles in the weekly kernel edition are quite interesting, but only if one has to deal with the topic in question. If I'm not dealing with block I/O right now, why should I read a long technical article about it? Yet the index will always have something relevant to the code I'm working on now.
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Kernel page index? Posted Feb 1, 2007 4:15 UTC (Thu) by midg3t (subscriber, #30998) [Link]
I didn't know the page existed either, but I always avoided reading the links at the top of the page because there's no efficient way to see them all. The 5x3 grid is space-efficient, but not reading-efficient. Perhaps those links could be put in the left sidebar rather than at the top.
Kernel page index? Posted Feb 1, 2007 8:51 UTC (Thu) by aschwinm (subscriber, #33817) [Link] I didn't know about this page also, it's very usefull as I see it now.
Best regards from the Netherlands,
Aschwin Marsman
Kernel page index? Posted Feb 1, 2007 10:15 UTC (Thu) by DG (subscriber, #16978) [Link] ditto; i hadn't really noticed those links before (kernel/security/distributions). They need seperating out from e.g. Subscriptions, Advertise, Write for LWN, Contact us etc etc.
Kernel page index? Posted Feb 1, 2007 10:26 UTC (Thu) by Felix.Braun (subscriber, #3032) [Link] Usually I refrain from posting mere "me too" messages. But this one seems to be an indicator that one of LWN's valuable (and probably time-consuming) features has gone under-noticed...
Kernel page index? Posted Feb 1, 2007 13:32 UTC (Thu) by rakoenig (subscriber, #29855) [Link] 100% ACK.
I got also very much surpised seeing this jewel of information on my monitor.
This is some issue that urgently needs to be addressed.
Kernel page index? Posted Feb 1, 2007 19:19 UTC (Thu) by mikov (subscriber, #33179) [Link] Me too :-)
Kernel page index? Posted Feb 3, 2007 22:40 UTC (Sat) by nedrichards (guest, #23295) [Link] This chorus of 'I didn't know this amazing thing existed' seems to suggest that some kind of Interaction Design/Information Architecture/Look and Feel refresh may be handy.
Kernel page index? Posted Feb 4, 2007 4:14 UTC (Sun) by hugh (guest, #928) [Link] I second the wow's and me-too's. I recently spent quite a while cursing the search enginge looking for one of Valerie Henson's KHB articles. I think that something needs to be done to make this valuable resource more visible.
Kernel page index? Posted Feb 1, 2007 13:40 UTC (Thu) by goodgnews (guest, #31551) [Link] Me too! I didnt know about this page either. I would suggest redoing the navigation and separate things into catagories with labels. To be honest, i've always ignored those top menu items cause i couldnt make and sense of them.
Example:
Search: [....Search box...]
Content
Contact
Kernel page index? Posted Feb 2, 2007 1:54 UTC (Fri) by markcox (guest, #29577) [Link] i have to add another 'me too', and suggest that you move the options to the bottom of the sidebar, and trim them down. e.g. 'contact us' and 'write for lwn' could be merged. 'home' could be removed because most ppl know that clicking the logo means home. etc.
i would also like to mention elsewhere in this thread the 'grumpy editor' page was discussed, i have to admit that i often skim these as sometimes the article may cover a topic i'm not interested in, and if the article goes for several weeks, i feel disappointed, i think the non-tech articles (like about email clients) should not span across issues.
the third thing i want to address is from an increasing no's of subscribers point of view, it isn't us (the subscribers) you should be asking, it is the non-subscribers, psychologically, if we subscribers think that this years lwn is not as good as last years, we will probably still re-subscribe, so i think it's short sighted to exclude non-subscribers (although, i think you should have a 'different' survey for them).
and, thanks for the good work, i always enjoy reading lwn.
Kernel page index? Posted Feb 5, 2007 18:34 UTC (Mon) by amarjan (guest, #25108) [Link] Even simply changing the background colour of the top navigation bar would be a great start. I've always thought that on LWN, navigation == salmon background. That dead grey background on the top just disappears into the page like a slot for a blocked banner ad; I never even noticed it!
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