From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2094E1389F5 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 2015 04:42:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 40137E0996; Sun, 5 Apr 2015 04:42:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3BEF0E0976 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 2015 04:42:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YecO3-0006mG-Dn for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 05 Apr 2015 06:42:19 +0200 Received: from ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.231.22.224]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 05 Apr 2015 06:42:19 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 05 Apr 2015 06:42:19 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] New website: Where the .... is the ....ing documentation link? Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2015 04:42:13 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.140 (Chocolate Salty Balls; GIT 048fecd) X-Archives-Salt: 50c435b6-ee91-4e0d-ad3d-0b8151a89685 X-Archives-Hash: 8a5f4ed31d36bb56c5fa7fb3260f3a46 TL;DR: (1) Please consider either making Documentation a top-level-menu link (preferable), or at least change Support to Support and Documentation. (2) On the documentation lander page, add a "one big list" link to a browser-keyword-searchable list of docs, like the old docs project page had. Looking for the news glep to double-check the title header max char limit (for the shorewall news-item thread was the first time I've had to use the new website. I *HATE* it! It's a NIGHTMARE to navigate, compared to the old one! There's all this nice fuzzy buzzword bingo, but actually FINDING anything like DOCUMENTATION is an exercise in frustration! OK, no direct docs link. Well, "getting started" should have a nice documentation link, since you don't get far on gentoo without docs... No, not there... Well then, "learn more" CERTAINLY must lead to documentation allowing you to do just that!... BLECH!!! NO!!! Nothing there but more buzzword bingo (and a contact link and links to share more of my interests with privacy-insensitive corporations that already know too much about me at the bottom). OK, OK, Get involved must SURELY have that doc link, since people will need some documentation in ordered to do so!... Ugh, another rabbit trail... Oh, DUH! Must be under SUPPORT! OK, there it is! But even if I KNOW to look under support, it's STILL two clicks to documentation, where it WAS just one! And once on the documentation page, again, a whole bunch of fuzzy categories! Where's the "one big list" link, where a simple browser keyword search will immediately find the document for configuring gentoo for whatever fancy technology you're wanting to get up and running, be it something fancy like mdraid or lvm, or more basic like one's init system of choice or sound or OpenGL? But at least put a nice direct one-click link to docs direct on the front page. Please? (Tho unless it's directly in the main copy, I guess it'd still be two, since you have to click that weird icon with no actual words saying it's a menu, to open that, before you actually click what you want... *IF* you can actually find or guess what it's called... on the waaayyy too vague menu.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman