Some feedback on the website.

Gary Willoughby via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Dec 15 00:31:40 PST 2015


On Tuesday, 15 December 2015 at 08:26:44 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
> On 2015-12-15 08:07, deadalnix wrote:
>
> [snip]
>> All of this is quite damaging to D's brand.
>>
>> Even even though I'm not a webdev, I've been working in growth 
>> for a
>> long time and these things matter. I don't know DDoc, and I'm 
>> not sure
>> this is a very smart move. That raise the barrier to 
>> contribute to the
>> website. The intersection of people that know webdev and DDoc 
>> is just
>> mostly existent.
>>
>> The time I can spend on this is quite limited due to SDC, work 
>> and
>> personal life. Learning DDoc is just too big of a barrier. Yet 
>> I can
>> provide support to anyone that is willing to help.
>>
>> Last but not least, it wouldn't hurt to hire a designer to have
>> something slick.
>
> I agree with all this, especially the last part about Ddoc.

We've all said time and time again if ddoc wasn't used for the 
entire site more people would help with it. Ddoc makes sense for 
the documentation but not everything else.

I thought Sociomantic were re-designing and sorting the site out?


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