A new look for rust-lang.org • Hacker News Board

Re: A new look for rust-lang.org

#21

Post by laszlokorte » Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 11:10 PM UTC

The colors, the fonts and the thick bars behind the headlines are really distracting and most important: example code on the front is missing as well as the clearly stated list of features ("zero-cost abstractions, move semantics, guaranteed memory safety [...]").

The buttons in the "get involved" section should better be labeled "read the book", "watch videos" and "read contribution guide".

The z-index of the "Click here to try out the new beta site!" banner on rust-lang.org is wrong when scrolling down.

Re: A new look for rust-lang.org

#22

Post by laszlokorte » Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 11:14 PM UTC

laszlokorte wrote: post #21

The colors, the fonts and the thick bars behind the headlines are really distracting and most important: example code on the front is missing as well as the clearly stated list of features ("zero-cost abstractions, move semantics, guaranteed memory safety [...]"). The buttons in the "get involved" section should better be labeled "read the book", "watch videos" and "read contribution guide". The z-index of the "Click…

And in my opinion the old white/blue/black color scheme provided a very familiar and simple corporate identity throughout the ecosystem.

I don't think those new playful colors will fit the whole ecosystem.

Re: A new look for rust-lang.org

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Post by steveklabnik » Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 11:16 PM UTC

gpm wrote: post #20

Generally LGTM. I loved the playground editor embedded in the old front page. Any chance it can be added to this one as well?

We loved the code snippets in the abstract, but nobody could come up with good, succinct, representative ones.

Re: A new look for rust-lang.org

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Post by steveklabnik » Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 11:16 PM UTC

tphan wrote: post #15

Tabbing through the page is kinda annoying because they've set outline: 0 on all the buttons.

Could you file a bug please?

Re: A new look for rust-lang.org

#25

Post by riccardomc » Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 11:17 PM UTC

Doesn't the "small Rust application" at the bottom of the page lack an "extern crate ferris_says;"? I know very little about Rust, but I cannot get the example to work without that...

Re: A new look for rust-lang.org

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Post by steveklabnik » Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 11:18 PM UTC

riccardomc wrote: post #25

Doesn't the "small Rust application" at the bottom of the page lack an "extern crate ferris_says;"? I know very little about Rust, but I cannot get the example to work without that...

Rust 2018 does not require extern crate anymore (except in certain very limited circumstances); when this page goes live, that will work. Or you can try it out on beta.

Re: A new look for rust-lang.org

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Post by federicoponzi » Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 11:22 PM UTC

I think it's beautiful! :)

Re: A new look for rust-lang.org

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Post by whalesalad » Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 11:22 PM UTC

Missed opportunity for some circa-2005 rusty photoshop tutorials in action here. https://photoshopcafe.com/tutorials/rust/rust.htm

Re: A new look for rust-lang.org

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Post by binarycrusader » Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 11:23 PM UTC

laszlokorte wrote: post #21

The colors, the fonts and the thick bars behind the headlines are really distracting and most important: example code on the front is missing as well as the clearly stated list of features ("zero-cost abstractions, move semantics, guaranteed memory safety [...]"). The buttons in the "get involved" section should better be labeled "read the book", "watch videos" and "read contribution guide". The z-index of the "Click…

I have to agree, the colors seem very "off" to me, but it seems fine otherwise.

In particular, the "fuschia" background color makes for poor readability (at least for me).

Re: A new look for rust-lang.org

#30

Post by Siilwyn » Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 11:23 PM UTC

RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote: post #19

This website seems like they are targeting CEO and CTO's. The website looks very much like a business website trying to get corporations to sign up. The old website felt it was targeting programmers with it's code sample that you could modify and run directly on the web page.

Yes exactly! The content targetting "system programmers" is odd as Rust is great for so much more like the examples towards the bottom about webassembly and such.

Additionally the website seems to take longer to load.