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Re: Racket Language – New website design

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Post by Dinius »

no_protocol wrote: post #2

That's great, but it doesn't really seem to tell me anything at all about what it is. From what I saw, it looks like a site that helps you make a variety of line drawings. Next time I need to make some line graphs, I'll check it out.

Worth a read, or at the very least a look: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racket_(programming_language)

Re: Racket Language – New website design

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Post by cocktailpeanuts »

I don't want to be that guy, but I think the design needs work. Especially since the title is saying "has a new design". I wonder what it used to look like. It looks like a nice piece of technology, but like the other guy said, the website is too busy and I don't know where to look at. It took me a minute to find the github link. It's almost like it's hidden purposely.

Also the "Books" section is kind of misleading and made me think they're taking credit for something that they didn't do. After taking a look at the page for a while finally realized it's like scheme/lisp, and the books section kind of makes sense, but still it's still very confusing.

This may be too harsh but the design almost reminds me of those parking websites that make money off of adsense. Hope they put some more effort into the design so the website can actually do the language more justice.

Re: Racket Language – New website design

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Post by no_protocol »

Dinius wrote: post #3
no_protocol wrote: post #2

That's great, but it doesn't really seem to tell me anything at all about what it is. From what I saw, it looks like a site that helps you make a variety of line drawings. Next time I need to make some line graphs, I'll check it out.

Worth a read, or at the very least a look: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racket_(programming_language)

Thanks.

To the creator of this site:

Take into consideration the commonality between all of these:

https://www.python.org/

https://golang.org/

https://www.rust-lang.org/

https://dlang.org/

http://elm-lang.org/

http://plt-scheme.org/

Each of these language homepages clearly explains that they are introducing a programming language. This new racket-lang.org page doesn't. It has a huge impact on what users will think when they load the page.

The PLT Scheme homepage is leagues better than the new Racket one because it tells me exactly what it is for. Don't let yourselves go backwards.

Re: Racket Language – New website design

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Post by Teichopsia »

cocktailpeanuts wrote: post #4

I don't want to be that guy, but I think the design needs work. Especially since the title is saying "has a new design". I wonder what it used to look like. It looks like a nice piece of technology, but like the other guy said, the website is too busy and I don't know where to look at. It took me a minute to find the github link. It's almost like it's hidden purposely. Also the "Books" section is kind of misleading a…

I'm looking at it from a 4" phone, so it might 'look busy' from a bigger device? I don't know.

This design IS a huge improvement from what they used to have. Giving short code snippets along with explanations and links with proper organization (remember, I'm looking at it on a phone) per category. But most importantly, it loaded fast and everything I looked at worked. Something that doesn't happen with a lot of 'better' designed websites featured on HN.

Re: Racket Language – New website design

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Post by lomnakkus »

IMO, the "only show text + links on hover" thing needs to go. If you absolutely must do something like this, please use faded-but-visible text instead of completely hiding it.

(It's also really annoying on mobile where you have to actively tap to show the links.)

EDIT: Reasoning: Does this page contain the information I need? I can't tell without apparently hovering over everything. (Plus, if I hover away from one of the 'graphs' it's easy to forget what was on there.)

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