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I totally agree. As a coder, whenever I visit a website of a project I'm interested in, I'm looking for key technical features to convince me it's the right too
by rhn_mk1 8y ago
I totally agree. As a coder, whenever I visit a website of a project I'm interested in, I'm looking for key technical features to convince me it's the right tool for the job, or that it offers an unique property tht I never even thought about. That's usually conveyed in a list of bullet points, and a couple of examples.
I can rarely find it though. I wasn't quite able to grasp why, and I kind of accepted this as how it is. But after seeing the two revisions side by side, I finally get it! The important, unique information found in the old version. The majority of project web sites are closer to the new version, which hides the complexity behind colorful "screens" and headlines which are short, friendly, distracting, and very, very bland, delivering the same "simplicity, performance, productivity" message regardless of the project. Can you guess what Docker does (or does especially well) just based on the website? [0]
I've learned to cut the crap and go straight to the "about" page to understand the distinct advantages in a more condensed form, but that seems to be missing from the redesign.
[0] https://www.docker.com/ https://www.docker.com/
- throwawaylolx 8y ago>As a coder Obviously the website is no longer targeted at coders: the Rust Team seems to target managers to push adoption. To me, it looks like a corporation that has to report user growth every quarter, so they start employing harmful UX to desperately try to push the numbers up.
- peterkelly 8y agoI often find myself going to the Wikipedia page of a project to find out what it really is because the project's own website fails to do so.
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- anoncake 8y agoWhatever Docker is, it's Windows-only. Apparently.