| Re: [phoenix-dev] Another /projects/ page experiment |
Denis,Great idea, bad execution.Yes, having done the experiment, I am inclined to agree: candy-colors bad; five audiences good. FWIW, there is no guide to "what's correct" on our site. I didn't write one because I don't think I need to. And if I did, would you even follow its guidelines?Yes. I think my continued attempts to revise the pages based on feedback from the team (phoenix-dev) and the community (outside phoenix-dev) demonstrate that. I just want the guidelines to be sufficiently flexible to allow for innovation and change. Additionally, they cannot be "based in person X's head" because that leads to the shiny red rock scenario: "bring me a rock", "no, a red rock", "no, a shiny red rock", "no, a ..." [1] I think we all agree that the current Purple site is not going to win any beauty awards anytime soon, but no one on the team has any huge amounts of available time or cash to radically change it.As long as we continue to incrementally improve our website, I'll be happy. If we just say "we don't have time/money to redo the whole thing so we shouldn't change anything", well, then, I won't be happy. Improving anything (our website, the portal, the development process, etc) can only be done through a series of experiments: some of them will work (portal-based membership web pages) and some of them will fail (creation review voting). So we keep the good stuff and revert the bad stuff - if we keep this up, we'll move towards a better website/development process/etc. every quarter. - Bjorn --
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