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Literally there's a green download box on the front page, up and to the right. It will give you the most commonly used installer. You could also press / and ty

Literally there's a green download box on the front page, up and to the right. It will give you the most commonly used installer. You could also press / and type "download" and it's the first hit.

jancsika 7y ago
> Literally there's a green download box on the front page, up and to the right. In fact, there is literally a small white rectangle with light green text that is difficult to read. The rectangle is only filled green if the user happens to mouse over it. Also the box floats well outside the center view of the page-- i.e., the user has to use time and energy to move their eye outside the main text flow to that area. Compare to the Ubuntu front page where the download link is in the flow of the main block of text. Again, to be literal: default: unobtrusive box with small text and an icon that has an arrow outlined in a gray-on-a-white-bg so light I can barely see it on my wide LCD screen. mouseover: box becomes more prominent and text becomes readable That's the opposite of the style you described. > You could also press / and type "download" and it's the first hit. It's funny because the design you are defending is one of the few that breaks the discoverability of Firefox's wonderful realtime search. FF search is so helpful because a) the text gets highlighted in realtime as the user types and b) FF will jump to a scroll position that brings the current highlighted text into view. Because Debian's unobtrusive download box is outside the main text flow and at the top of the page, the user is unlikely to notice the realtime selection and they don't get the benefit of a scroll jump. So yes, FF "/" is awesome, but Debian's website somehow finds the way to make it the least effective at revealing that download link to the user.
jeltz 7y ago
I have downloaded Debian multiple times the last few and I have never seen that green box. In fact I did not see it when I visited their page earlier today to check if 10.2 had been released yet. So, even if it is there it was invisible to me.

Literally there's a green download box on the front page, up and to the right. It will give you the most commonly used installer. You could also press / and type "download" and it's the first hit.

jancsika 7y ago

> Literally there's a green download box on the front page, up and to the right. In fact, there is literally a small white rectangle with light green text that is difficult to read. The rectangle is only filled green if the user happens to mouse over it. Also the box floats well outside the center view of the page-- i.e., the user has to use time and energy to move their eye outside the main text flow to that area. Compare to the Ubuntu front page where the download link is in the flow of the main block of text. Again, to be literal: default: unobtrusive box with small text and an icon that has an arrow outlined in a gray-on-a-white-bg so light I can barely see it on my wide LCD screen. mouseover: box becomes more prominent and text becomes readable That's the opposite of the style you described. > You could also press / and type "download" and it's the first hit. It's funny because the design you are defending is one of the few that breaks the discoverability of Firefox's wonderful realtime search. FF search is so helpful because a) the text gets highlighted in realtime as the user types and b) FF will jump to a scroll position that brings the current highlighted text into view. Because Debian's unobtrusive download box is outside the main text flow and at the top of the page, the user is unlikely to notice the realtime selection and they don't get the benefit of a scroll jump. So yes, FF "/" is awesome, but Debian's website somehow finds the way to make it the least effective at revealing that download link to the user.

jeltz 7y ago

I have downloaded Debian multiple times the last few and I have never seen that green box. In fact I did not see it when I visited their page earlier today to check if 10.2 had been released yet. So, even if it is there it was invisible to me.