Re: Should we just go ahead and redesign the website?

Florent Daigniere <[email protected]> Mon, 08 Aug 2016 14:46:43 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.network.freenet.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Mon, 2016-08-08 at 07:16 -0500, Ian Clarke wrote:
> > This is why Ian is talking about "a ground-up redesign". What's
> > suggested is that it won't be a "migration".
> 
> Exactly.  We need to start fresh with the structure and the copy,
> keeping the main site much more focussed on educating new users about
> Freenet, and helping them get up-and-running.  More detailed content
> can initially remain on the current site, but we should migrate it to
> Github Wiki.
> 
> I guess there is a separate debate about whether we should continue
> to host our own wiki or use Github.  Almost every other active open
> source project I know of avoids hosting their own web servers unless
> absolutely necessary - and with good reason.  Why would we endure the
> burden of maintaining a web server, with the implied security and
> scalability headaches, when someone else will do it for us for free?
> 

We have had bad experiences with sourceforge in the past... github is
just the fancier, modern sourceforge.

That being said, I'm all for externalizing the wikis and minimizing the
sysadmin. I've always been against us running mediawiki... or any form
of non-static website. If you look at the history, no one except
developers contributes anyway.
https://wiki.freenetproject.org/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&d
ays=30&from=&limit=500

Florent

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