Re: Thoughts about our website

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> On Feb 11, 2024, at 7:52 PM, lars.sonchocky-helldorf@hamburg.de wrote:
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>> Am 11.02.2024 um 17:15 schrieb M A <teammember0x01@gmail.com>:
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>>> On Feb 10, 2024, at 8:02 PM, lars.sonchocky-helldorf@hamburg.de wrote:
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>>> Hi dear GNUsteppers,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I lately came across a website which impressed me by its usefulness and 
>>> simplicity:
>>> 
>>> https://www.qemu.org
>>> 
>>> 
>>> It impressed me with its clearness and to the point information: you can 
>>> see everything important at a glance:
>>> 
>>> On the top there are the most important links (Download, Support, 
>>> Contribute, Docs, Wiki, Blog), followed by a big logo and title as well as 
>>> a one sentence description of the project.
>>> 
>>> Then follows a section of three Screenshots, which each show a certain 
>>> aspect of QEMU in detail.
>>> 
>>> And finally there is a section "Latest releases“ at the bottom, showing the 
>>> latest available releases.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> This is all visible at first glance right on the homepage, which is 
>>> important today in the times of short attention spans. Of course there are 
>>> links to more detailed information on subpages. 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I propose now that we learn from the concepts and ideas of QEMU’s website.
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>> QEMU's website is good, but ReactOS' site is better (IMHO). It actually 
>> lists recent activity to the code.
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>> https://reactos.org
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> What’s nice of the reactos.org website is, that they have a news section in 
> the lower parts of their page. However, this requires someone to write news 
> on a regular basis because nothing is worse than more than a year old newest 
> news entry. I think there would be enough news, watching 
> https://twitter.com/search?q=GNUstep&f=live&vertical=default brings up news 
> now and then. Maybe we integrate just that twitter or a mastodon feed on 
> #GNUstep?
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> A Log of recent GitHub activity could either also be directly integrated or 
> we make a bot tweeting those things and then just integrate the twitter or 
> mastodon feed.
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> Kind regards,
> 
>       Lars

That is a great idea.