Why don't they say what it is? [LWN.net]

Why don't they say what it is?

Posted Oct 7, 2005 15:34 UTC (Fri) by walles (guest, #954)
In reply to: The Battle for Wesnoth hits 1.0 by cdmiller
Parent article: The Battle for Wesnoth hits 1.0

Why is it so hard for many projects to present themselves on their main page? They should have the Info page as a front page, not the News page.

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Why don't they say what it is?

Posted Oct 7, 2005 16:49 UTC (Fri) by hollis (subscriber, #6768) [Link] (1 responses)

Very true.

The same goes for release announcements too: "Version 0.7 of Foo is out! Changes include a new frobulator and a reimplemented bar." But what _is_ it?

Why don't they say what it is?

Posted Oct 14, 2005 10:03 UTC (Fri) by Jyhem (guest, #29388) [Link]

I concur. The piss-poor design of this website must have lost more potential players than any weakness in the gaming itself could.

Even if you put the the "info" page as homepage (which you should), the second must useful page is the "screenshots" page. Which is *also* missing from the menubar !
This is even more silly as it actually exists, only it's hidden behind the "media" link.

sigh :-(

Why don't they say what it is?

Posted Oct 17, 2005 19:53 UTC (Mon) by alext (guest, #7589) [Link]

Agreed.

I took one look (like I do to sites with that arrangement) I left bevause life is too short to try to pick which link tells me about the thing. Anyone mainly interested in the news will surely just bookmark straight to it or have an aggregator if they support it.