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Did they hire a designer to do... this? Before people say "OSS must look bad" or "It's a minimal style", I encourage looking at https://www.djangoproject.com/

Did they hire a designer to do... this? Before people say "OSS must look bad" or "It's a minimal style", I encourage looking at https://www.djangoproject.com/ https://www.djangoproject.com/. Aesthetically pleasing without sacrificing clarity, this website sets the standard for a technical project's homepage redesign. Boring and half-hearted UI's should be relegated to the likes of https://www.oracle.com/database/index.html https://www.oracle.com/database/index.html than to a lauded and respected database like Postgres.

emilsedgh 9y ago
I mean Django community is a community of web developers. It's expected of them to have a better looking website. Please remember that this is all volunteers. I'm pretty much sure Postgres community would love if you help them on this.
- hitekker 9y ago
  I'd be forgiving if Postgres was a few-year-old project struggling for legitimacy. But Postgres is all grown up now, and shouldn't resort to the excuses of the unsuccessful and immature. If they didn't care for design, then they should have stuck with the old look, like http://sqlite.org http://sqlite.org or http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/ http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/. Both are perfect examples of "we know exactly what we want to be and we don't need to worry about design". But a half-baked result that pretends to be finished, suggests a lack of confidence in the software that it champions. Which is, frankly, unbecoming.
  - untog 9y ago
    To be honest, if you're judging the quality of Postgres by the design of their web site then, well, maybe you should steer clear of it. The rest of us will be just fine.
omeid2 9y ago
The Django websites takes over ~5 seconds to load for me, while the Postgres takes little over a 1 second. Fancy is good, fast is better.
TeMPOraL 9y ago
> Did they hire a designer to do... this? I hope so, and if I'm ever in need of a webpage design, I'd love to hire that same designer. Seriously, the site is close to perfect. It looks nice enough, it's clean, fast and full of content - instead of being full of useless eye candy and short on actual information.

emilsedgh 9y ago

I mean Django community is a community of web developers. It's expected of them to have a better looking website. Please remember that this is all volunteers. I'm pretty much sure Postgres community would love if you help them on this.

hitekker 9y ago
I'd be forgiving if Postgres was a few-year-old project struggling for legitimacy. But Postgres is all grown up now, and shouldn't resort to the excuses of the unsuccessful and immature. If they didn't care for design, then they should have stuck with the old look, like http://sqlite.org http://sqlite.org or http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/ http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/. Both are perfect examples of "we know exactly what we want to be and we don't need to worry about design". But a half-baked result that pretends to be finished, suggests a lack of confidence in the software that it champions. Which is, frankly, unbecoming.
- untog 9y ago
  To be honest, if you're judging the quality of Postgres by the design of their web site then, well, maybe you should steer clear of it. The rest of us will be just fine.

omeid2 9y ago

The Django websites takes over ~5 seconds to load for me, while the Postgres takes little over a 1 second. Fancy is good, fast is better.

TeMPOraL 9y ago

> Did they hire a designer to do... this? I hope so, and if I'm ever in need of a webpage design, I'd love to hire that same designer. Seriously, the site is close to perfect. It looks nice enough, it's clean, fast and full of content - instead of being full of useless eye candy and short on actual information.