Great but fails to explain what reactos is and what it's about.
After 10 years ReactOS website has got new design
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Re: After 10 years ReactOS website has got new design
#22All this animated stuff makes the new site really annoying. Does anybody actually like this stuff? Or is it just the developers who want to show off how much Javascript they know?
I've seen similar websites done for my former high school and former employee. I think in both cases it was webmasters showing off and justifying their existence combined with website owners being impressed by their 1337-skillz and maybe having some complexes that they aren't modern enough.
It also didn't help that owners weren't actually users of the website and that the design was probably demoed to them on developer's machine over localhost where it may have performed reasonably fast.
Re: After 10 years ReactOS website has got new design
#23Maybe it's time for another redesign…
Site is quite broken on iPad
Re: After 10 years ReactOS website has got new design
#24All this animated stuff makes the new site really annoying. Does anybody actually like this stuff? Or is it just the developers who want to show off how much Javascript they know?
I don't mind the animations but I just can't stand it when websites mess with the scrolling. The page does not behave as I expect when I scroll using the trackpad on my macbook. I don't know how it behaves with a mouse scrollwheel but I assume it feels strange.
There is no universal way to reliably mimic scrolling with javascript. There's too many different browsers and devices, all of them treat scrolling differently.
Re: After 10 years ReactOS website has got new design
#25This is the previous design from 10 years ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20060421204854/http://www.reacto... It certainly looks dated, but compared to the new design there are a few good things about it: - High information density - Screenshot at the top - Link to legal review and licenses (questions that any enterprise customer would have) - No gratuitous animation sequences I wonder if it would have been possible…
> Animation makes this even worse, because the user has to sit and wait while the site slowly delivers information in animated word-sized chunks.
This is exactly what pissed me off within the first 3 seconds, that there is no way to see everything they have to say without waiting until the animation goes whole cycle and then waiting some more to make sure I didn't miss anything.
It looks like they took design tips from people optimizing for addictiveness, not usefulness. Hint: you don't need their tips if you are a FOSS project and actually lose money on people spending more time on your site than necessary.
Re: After 10 years ReactOS website has got new design
#26All this animated stuff makes the new site really annoying. Does anybody actually like this stuff? Or is it just the developers who want to show off how much Javascript they know?
I don't mind the animations but I just can't stand it when websites mess with the scrolling. The page does not behave as I expect when I scroll using the trackpad on my macbook. I don't know how it behaves with a mouse scrollwheel but I assume it feels strange. There is no universal way to reliably mimic scrolling with javascript. There's too many different browsers and devices, all of them treat scrolling differentl…
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Re: After 10 years ReactOS website has got new design
#27A new design, but was it proof-read by someone?
"( a step by step and video guide can be found here)" - nevermind things like the space after the opening paranthesis, let's not be picky... but there is no link.
"Here you can find a guide about how to request a position to translate the site, and here an awesome tool created by XXXX" - again, no links, and I have some doubts whether XXXX is an actual person : ) It surely doesn't inspire much trust in a prospective user who is assumed to ask questions such as "Free and Open-whaaat...?" or "is ReactOS legal?".
Re: After 10 years ReactOS website has got new design
#28All this animated stuff makes the new site really annoying. Does anybody actually like this stuff? Or is it just the developers who want to show off how much Javascript they know?
Also 72 (72!!!!) requests to load the page, including: 1.3 MB of javascript and css, 2 MB of images, 6 custom fonts, and most annoyingly the scrolling is completely messed up. Please, never ever do custom scrolling. It's an instant turn off. If this was a site selling me something, the scrolling would have lost a potential sale from me.
Re: After 10 years ReactOS website has got new design
#29I want to follow their news, but I can't seem to find an RSS feed.
In its place, there's stupid facebook/etc social crap buttons.
Re: After 10 years ReactOS website has got new design
#30This is the previous design from 10 years ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20060421204854/http://www.reacto... It certainly looks dated, but compared to the new design there are a few good things about it: - High information density - Screenshot at the top - Link to legal review and licenses (questions that any enterprise customer would have) - No gratuitous animation sequences I wonder if it would have been possible…
> Animation makes this even worse, because the user has to sit and wait while the site slowly delivers information in animated word-sized chunks. This is exactly what pissed me off within the first 3 seconds, that there is no way to see everything they have to say without waiting until the animation goes whole cycle and then waiting some more to make sure I didn't miss anything. It looks like they took design tips fr…
> addictiveness
How so? The forced smooth scrolling thing makes reading the page really annoying, and I strongly feel like closing it and never opening it again.