Re: Website Redesign Pre-pre-alpha

Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab-S0/[email protected]> Sun, 29 Jan 2017 20:39:04 +0100
Newsgroups	gmane.network.freenet.devel
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Steve Dougherty <steve-kVTqj8yhOEv2eFz/[email protected]> writes:

> On Sun, Jan 29, 2017, 6:39 AM Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab-S0/[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Dan Roberts <[email protected]> writes:
>> > I've hosted the current state of the redesign here for now:
>> > https://ademan-laptop.github.io/freenet-website-redesign-pelican/
>>
>> Wow, looks good.
>>
>
> It sure does! Thank you for making this!
>
> A random thought (no requirement): It would be cool if we could show
>> some content from Freenet within the rabbit shape. Maybe adding a
>> twinkling eye to the rabbit, followed by short flashes of screenshots.
>>
>
> I disagree. Having open space and leaving the logo uncluttered seems
> important. I agree screenshots would be good; we had some before the last
> redesign, so we don't necessarily need new ones. I'm not sure where to put
> them though.

I’ll happily leave those details to someone who works on the design.

>> About the content: The tagline ("browse ... ") sounds weak and does not
>> make it clear that you can only access content within Freenet. That is
>> stronger on our current site, though still not perfectly clear that this
>> is only for sites in Freenet:
>>
>> > Leap over censorship
>> > Escape total surveillance
>>
>> > Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant
>> > communication and publishing.  Browse websites, post on forums, and
>> > publish files within Freenet with strong privacy protections.
>>
>> The missing tagline ("Leap ...") makes this pretty weak.
>>
>>
>> For *testimonials* you can use some of the quotes from the (removed)
>> carousel:
>> https://github.com/freenet/website/commit/05de6ca1271b2916eacfdbbfc75f1e5ecd22f00a#diff-39f50d8311a16c223941b20dd00f12e4L26
>>
>> 'Now the Mempo repository can not be censored, DDoSed or taken offline,
>> despite having just one tiny server.'* — rfree in [apt-get over
>> Freenet](news.html#20150105)
>>
>> 'A decentralized anonymous datastore with real censorship resistance, no
>> central authority and long lifetime only for information which people
>> actually use.'* — [The forgotten Cryptopunk Paradise](
>> http://draketo.de/english/freenet/forgotten-cryptopunk-paradise)
>>
>> “After running the Tor services for years it was a big relief to just
>> shut down the services for good and say ’fuck it’. I never again
>> had to worry no more about security. With Freenet I am Free, it
>> suites the name pretty well if you ask me.”
>> — Unkwon
>>
>
> Even if it is quoting someone else I'd lean against cursing, especially on
> the front page.

Ah, yes. We should remove out the 'and say ...'. It’s not actually
needed for the quote.

> Best wishes,
>> Arne
>>
>> > Ah great, I was unaware we had an official facebook page. I think it
>> would
>> > be great to at least mirror some of our most recent news items to it for
>> > content. Facebook and Twitter are the two most important social media
>> > accounts in my estimation, but I no longer follow these sort of things
>> > closely.
>> >
>> >
>> > There are still known issues, but I've enabled github issues on the
>> > project. Please feel free to report issues and comments/criticism as you
>> > come across them. I plan to spend some time tomorrow squashing more bugs
>> > that resulted from the port to pelican.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Dan
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 5:23 PM, Ian Clarke <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I use FB, and we already have a Freenet page -
>> >> https://www.facebook.com/freenetp2p/
>> >> It's not well maintained, but it is getting about 15 likes per week or
>> >> so.  If
>> >> anyone would like to assist with it let me know.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 4:07 PM, Arne Babenhauserheide arne_bab-S0/[email protected]
>> >> wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Dan Roberts <[email protected]> writes:
>> >>
>> >> > Ian: Are you comfortable with creating social media accounts for
>> Freenet?
>> >>
>> >> > Our design assumes their existence. I think a Facebook account is
>> >>
>> >> > worthwhile in any case.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> As far as I know we have a twitter account. Does anyone among us use
>> >>
>> >> Facebook (so is there someone who could routinely monitor the account)?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Best wishes,
>> >>
>> >> Arne
>> >>
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