Re: Winning design selected

I think manual language selection doesn't represent a huge issue for 
users.
If we also take into account that to offer this feature *alone* would 
require us to run our own web infrastructure (which represent cost in 
money and volunteer time) I think from a cost-benefit perspective it 
does seem an alright solution.

Github does seem reliable and it doesn't cost us a cent, but any static 
content host would probably work.
Take into account we also are using Github to host most Freenet 
repositories AFAIK, so it does seem logical.

Best regards,


On 2016-09-10 19:32, [email protected] wrote:
> On Friday, September 09, 2016 12:50:51 PM DC* wrote:
>> Effectively Github does *not* support Content-negotiation. If we don't 
>> want
>> to adopt another strategy to serve pages we'll need to stay away from
>> Github Pages.
>> Otherwise we'll need to add links to access the site in different
>> languages. Thus serving content from URLs such
>> /{de,es,fr}/documentation.html or /documentation.html.{de,es,fr} (or
>> similar format).
>> 
>> If we use localized URLs (which most static site generators do 
>> support) the
>> user would require to switch languages manually. We'll need also to 
>> request
>> changes to the designs to add a language selection menu/selector.
>> On the other side, we gain in terms of cost (Github pages hosting 
>> doesn't
>> cost us) and time (we don't need to configure, patch, upgrade any 
>> server).
>> 
>> I think we're better off with this option as money is always a concern 
>> and
>> should be carefully handled.
> 
> Hmm. Wasn't the whole point of re-designing the site to make it more 
> appealing
> to users? Manually having to select the language certainly won't please 
> them a
> lot :|
> 
> Websites are an insanely popular thing, so there should be an insane 
> amount of
> website hosters - do we really need to force ourselves to rely on one 
> specific
> one = GitHub? :|
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