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Interestingly, my love for Haskell was re-kindled today and I went to the site to download the latest platform. There is so much wrong with the new site - 1. E

Interestingly, my love for Haskell was re-kindled today and I went to the site to download the latest platform. There is so much wrong with the new site - 1. Earlier, there was a lot of information on the Home Page. Now there's almost nothing. Yes the earlier page was a bit too busy, but crucially comprised simple HTML links and was fast to load. 2. Now there's a big banner saying "Open Source Community Effort for 20 Years" with Vimeo links, which itself is a bad idea. What happened to simple HTML anymore? Anyway, I don't care about the effort - show me the results e.g. Hackage, Hoogle, IDEs, etc. all of which was readily available in the old page but not anymore. 3. Earlier, it was easy to locate the Haskell platform for Windows. Now it takes to a cryptic download page and I am not sure what I am downloading. What is MinGHC? These are just my initial impressions. Anyway, I wonder why people don't realize that not everything needs to be converted to the "modern web". Sometimes the old web is vastly superior to any modern alternatives.

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agumonkey 12y ago
Something like http://okmij.org/ftp/ http://okmij.org/ftp/ ?
arianvanp 12y ago
A new website will never be perfect. Luckily They're very open to suggestions and criticism . There seems to be an active issue tracker here [0] that is used to keep track of feedback. Pull requests seem to be welcomed as well. Quite the friendly community it seems. By the way. the old website moved to https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell [0] https://github.com/haskell-infra/hl/issues https://github.com/haskell-infra/hl/issues
iamcreasy 12y ago
There are couple of ways to introduce anything 'new' - You can a sit in a small cubic room and whisper about yours ideas all day long, hoping that someday somebody will notice your thoughts and work on it further. Or you can put up somewhere and present it in a way that causes least drag, so anyone with a slight interest can pick on it. Or you can use a combination of both. Today in our fast society, I think it's the balance that matters the most. If you have something interesting to talk about and you are not working hard to let others know about it, then you are doing everybody a disservice.

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agumonkey 12y ago

Something like http://okmij.org/ftp/ http://okmij.org/ftp/ ?

arianvanp 12y ago

A new website will never be perfect. Luckily They're very open to suggestions and criticism . There seems to be an active issue tracker here [0] that is used to keep track of feedback. Pull requests seem to be welcomed as well. Quite the friendly community it seems. By the way. the old website moved to https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell https://wiki.haskell.org/Haskell [0] https://github.com/haskell-infra/hl/issues https://github.com/haskell-infra/hl/issues

iamcreasy 12y ago

There are couple of ways to introduce anything 'new' - You can a sit in a small cubic room and whisper about yours ideas all day long, hoping that someday somebody will notice your thoughts and work on it further. Or you can put up somewhere and present it in a way that causes least drag, so anyone with a slight interest can pick on it. Or you can use a combination of both. Today in our fast society, I think it's the balance that matters the most. If you have something interesting to talk about and you are not working hard to let others know about it, then you are doing everybody a disservice.