Just let me drop my thoughts about developer.gnustep.org.

It is no technical challenge to have both: developer.gnustep.org and 
www.gnustep.org/developer and show the same content. Same for docs.gnustep.org

It is just a different URL/URI. And URLs should not really be typed in or human 
readable - they are a technical detail to organize The Web and locate 
resources. Search Engines, QR-codes, AI tools try to hide them completely for 
users because you search by content or advertisement.

Important is the content and how information is grouped (and linked internally 
and externally).


> Am 16.05.2025 um 04:41 schrieb Gregory Casamento <[email protected]>:
> 
> Luke,
> 
> On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM Luke Lollard <[email protected]> wrote:
> Greg,
> 
> On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 09:36:25AM -0400, Gregory Casamento wrote:
> > The website has a very retro aesthetic.  While this may appeal to long time
> > users, what it is going to FAIL to do is to attract new developers.
> 
> One comment: it has _already_ failed to accomplish this.
> 
> As I believe I made clear in my reply.  I was speaking of the present and 
> what it has ALREADY failed to do.
>  > We should redesign it to have a more modern look... but aside from that 
> there
> > are several issues.
> > 
> > 1. Outdated Visual Aesthetic
> > 2. No Mobile Optimization
> > 3. Header & Navigation
> > 
> > Content issues:
> > 4. Unclear Value Proposition
> > 5. Modern Use Cases Missing
> > 6. Developer Engagement Is Weak
> 
> I agree with these major points, though how to resolve these issues may
> be best left to the creativity of humans. :)
> 
> I used AI and a small company which does this to do the assessment.  Nowhere 
> in my discussion here did I say that AI should do it.  So, yes, absolutely.  
> What I posted I wouldn't have put it up here if I didn't agree with it.
>  > No clear download  section where the user doesn't have to dig.
> 
> Just brought this up in the "Website Structure" thread. Maybe a
> "Downloads" section on the top makes more sense.
> 
> Understood.
>  > GNUstep needs the binding with swift to be useful to developers.
> 
> This is a huge undertaking, and I think outside of the scope of this
> discussion. Maybe that could be part of a larger thread on the next
> major technical steps for the project.
> 
> Yes, agreed.
>  >     >     In the case we think subdomains are of use, I would rather 
> gather a
> >     >     documentation site. E.g. docs.gnustep.org with different kind of
> >     manuals
> >     >     as well as reference documentation.
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > docs/deveveloper/dev whatever.  Same thing.
> > 
> >     See my reply to Riccardo. I think they are slightly different, and we
> >     could ultimately use both to accomplish the goal of attracting and
> >     educating new developers.
> > 
> >     Part of the impasse here may be that no one but Ethan is really
> >     contributing to the developer.gnustep.org site. Ethan opened a thread
> >     not too long ago about this, and received zero responses.
> > 
> > 
> > We also need a better theme for the generated documentation.  I would 
> > happily
> > contribute to the developer site, but I don't know sphinx.  My way of
> > contributing is documenting the source. :)
> 
> Before we can touch that, we must work on the content. Please see the
> "Wiki Updates" thread.
> 
> Understood.  I haven't looked at that thread, but will.
>   -- 
> Luke Lollard
>  Yours, GC
> -- 
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