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Redesign of the www.rockbox.org front page
saratoga:
--- Quote from: GodEater on May 01, 2009, 02:51:48 PM ---Explain how it isn't please.
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Well just for starters, it ignores my argument about the lack of a tradeoff, which is really the key point here. The automatic installer is useful for everyone, so its a net win for everyone. It also emphasizes an anecdote ("I find it useful") over the actual argument advanced.
My argument here has always been that the removing the SVN table represents an unfavorable tradeoff between the need to inform people and your desire to recruit more non-technical users for as yet unstated reasons.
GodEater:
I think my large post highlights why I want them quite nicely.
saratoga:
Would you mind restating it here?
GodEater:
More users == more developers.
saratoga:
--- Quote from: GodEater on May 01, 2009, 03:34:57 PM ---More users == more developers.
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Users who are discouraged by the SVN table are unlikely to ever become developers. I think at best this argument is incredibly naive, at worst I'd say you were back-peddling:
--- Quote from: GodEater ---we risk scaring new users (especially non-technical ones) with what they will likely see as a constant stream of techno babble on the front page.
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--- Quote from: GodEater ---non-technical users
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--- Quote from: GodEater ---not a tech savvy person
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--- Quote from: GodEater ---there's too much technical information on there that has no value to her at all
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and so on. Do you really expect people for whom code "has no value" to decide, after seeing a website without an SVN table (and only a website without an SVN table!) , to learn c and embedded programming?
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