The scroll-jacking is strong with this one.
After 10 years ReactOS website has got new design
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Re: After 10 years ReactOS website has got new design
#52Maybe it's time for another redesign… Site is quite broken on iPad
Hi! Vicmarcal from ReactOS here. Which issues are you having navigating with the new ReactOS site? I'm using Ipad, and while there is too many work to be done in the responsive area(some bootstrap fixes mainly), I see it working in my Ipad. :)
Not completely unrelated, but the scroll-jacking in general is annoying.
Re: After 10 years ReactOS website has got new design
#53It's a template called Porto available for 16$ at themeforest. They also forgot to change some default pictures: http://themeforest.net/item/porto-responsive-html5-template/...
This doesn't bother me as much — FOSS projects don't need a rockstar designer for their website, do they? Unless a "designer" "developed" the website for them and they got blindsided, which I'm sure happens more than I care to understand. I've seen it happen at well-funded companies — employees claiming they designed something, management had no idea they didn't really do much work at all, etc.
They never needed much of a designer anyway, since if you look at the old site, which I think worked perfectly well, it was generated by "RosCMS". That was their own, GPL licensed, CMS.
Replacing that with a commercial template doesn't seem very FOSS to me.
Re: After 10 years ReactOS website has got new design
#54This 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…
I spent a good three minutes on the new website without fully understanding what this was about. A Linux distro? Something related to React.js? And why the hell is everything bouncing around every time I click a link?
On the old website I found everything I needed to know in 0.2 seconds. Didn't even have to click on anything.
Re: After 10 years ReactOS website has got new design
#55This 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…
"high information density"?
This is why 99% of programmers shouldn't be involved in design.
Re: After 10 years ReactOS website has got new design
#56This 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…
they have removed some animations now.
Re: After 10 years ReactOS website has got new design
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> juvenile
Cringe at their FAQ. I don't want my OS supplier to pretend to be hip. Super weird especially because they aren't a for-profit so it's not even a scheme to get to your money, they are just clueless a bit. Casual approach has to be earned through human contact.