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After 10 years ReactOS website has got new design

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Re: After 10 years ReactOS website has got new design

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qb45 wrote: post #25
pavlov wrote: post #2

This 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…

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Re: After 10 years ReactOS website has got new design

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Post by gjm11 »

pavlov wrote: post #2

This 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…

> called PowerPoint presentations "chart junk"

Not quite. "Chartjunk" is Tufte's term for anything in a chart that doesn't communicate information. PowerPoint presentations can be (and often are) bad in ways that have nothing to do with chartjunk, and lots of chartjunk occurs outside PowerPoint presentations.

Re: After 10 years ReactOS website has got new design

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Post by qb45 »

snvzz wrote: post #30
qb45 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Maybe addictiveness was a bad word.

I was under impression that rewarding people for patiently watching your animations may be an attempt at exploiting Sunken Cost Fallacy or even just giving them some time to forget about the rest of the world.

The reason I thought that was because this site somehow reminds me of all the sites nagging me to buy something and I suppose there are reasons why those behave the way they do.

Re: After 10 years ReactOS website has got new design

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Post by ocean3 »

pavlov wrote: post #2

This 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…

Maybe the old website catered to developers while the new one to users. The old site didn't have a text to focus on. While the new one moved my eyes directly to "Do you think" animation. Actually made me interested to download the OS.

Re: After 10 years ReactOS website has got new design

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Post by SyneRyder »

jensen123 wrote: post #18

All 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?

Oh my god. You're not kidding - this reminds me of the days of animated GIFs on Geocities pages.

Aesthestics / readability aside, I worry that those animations will be painfully slow / battery draining on old slow machines with underpowered GPUs, and I would've thought that's the ReactOS target market. The folks stuck on Windows XP boxes who can't upgrade to Windows 10, and for whom a lightweight XP/2000 compatible OS that still gets security updates would be ideal.

Re: After 10 years ReactOS website has got new design

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Post by TickleSteve »

nailer wrote: post #15
thecatspaw wrote: post #11

What bothers me about this site is that the first thing they do is put down Windows, instead of highlighting their own features. What they say about windows "Closed source, licensed, spy [sic]" may be true, but it doesnt tell me anything about their product. I could as well think "oh, I dont want to be spied upon, lets switch to linux". Those sliders also did not make it obvious to me that it can run windows server 2…

It's 'spy-cy'. Get it? They're saying Windows is spyware without actually saying it, by saying it's 'spicy'. 3edgy5me.

thats an in-joke that doesn't really work for the vast majority of people.

...it also shows a juvenile level of humour that isn't appropriate for a group that wants to generate trust in an OS.

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