"BadVista.org": FSF launches campaign against Microsoft Vista

Posted Dec 16, 2006 14:06 UTC (Sat) by vondo (guest, #256)
In reply to: "BadVista.org": FSF launches campaign against Microsoft Vista by allesfresser
Parent article: "BadVista.org": FSF launches campaign against Microsoft Vista

I hate it when the homepage for a project is a blog or a collection of news releases. That's just stupid. The homepage should be for someone who knows next to nothing about your project, not for your developers. I don't care which bugs version 3.1.4.5 of your release fix, I want to know what your project DOES first.

The last one I was looking at was GNU Radio. Never did really understand what that was, but it took me 10 minutes of hunting around to figure out that I didn't think I was interested in it.

"BadVista.org": FSF launches campaign against Microsoft Vista

Posted Dec 18, 2006 11:11 UTC (Mon) by Tjebbe (guest, #34055) [Link] (1 responses)

i disagree, i think the default page should show the thing that the page is mostly visited for.

If the site is mainly visited by developers, this should be development type stuff, like changelogs etc. If the site is mainly visited by people who have visited before, and want to know if there's anything new, this should be news. If the site is mainly visited by people trying to figure out what it's about, then you should open up with an about page.

Of course, the About page should be very reachable within one click on a very visible en clear link.

"BadVista.org": FSF launches campaign against Microsoft Vista

Posted Dec 18, 2006 16:54 UTC (Mon) by AJWM (guest, #15888) [Link]

> the default page should show the thing that the page is mostly visited for.

Nonsense. That's what bookmarks are for. It's okay to have a few lines of "what's new" or headlines on the main page (that helps let the newcomer know whether the site is active or comatose), but the default page shouldn't presume anything about the visitor.