Comments on: OSFlash remix

By: Josh Tynjala

Josh Tynjala — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 17:43:27 +0000

I usually just take a look at the Recent Changes page. That usually gives me an idea of what’s new.

I’m not sure I’m keen on the new design Aral. While you made it more readable, I don’t know if the new style reflects the OSFlash community. When I think of Flash, I think of sleek, cutting-edge sites. Similarly, the name Open Source Flash makes me think of the technology behind Flash. This new design feels bulky and overly… I’m not even sure of the right word. Playful, I guess. OSFlash is a fun topic, I’ll admit, but the design doesn’t convey the full message I feel it should.

One other thing I’d like to note. As a development wiki, the design should take up the full width of the visitor’s screen. There are many pages with a lot of information that needs to breathe a bit more.

By: VV

VV — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 17:37:23 +0000

(and this “feature” is the main reason i had never used yahoo…)

By: Vaclav Vancura

Vaclav Vancura — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 17:36:23 +0000

Hey Aral! The site design just lacks one feature:

body { background-color: white }

My win theme uses another color for panel background (gray), so it looks like this:
http://vaclav.vancura.org/data/2005/11/aral.png
(what is not exactly what you do want, huh? :] )

By: aral

aral — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:27:05 +0000

Hi Jed,

Very good suggestion. The current separation between the wiki and the source code hosting, etc. is far from ideal. I’m looking into solutions to this at the moment

By: jedwood

jedwood — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:02:04 +0000

Aral-
Just a quick thought: how difficult would it be to allow sorting the projects by “date created” and “last updated.” I realize “last updated” might not be the easiest term to define and keep track of, but I think any data would be more helpful than none. As someone who only managed to peek on the site every few weeks, I find myself looking at the alphabetized list of similar-sounding abstractly-named projects and thinking “hmmm, now what was that one about?” and “so which projects have been added or changed sinced last time?”