On Wed, 26 May 2010 16:32:35 -0400
Máirín Duffy <duffy(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 13:22 -0700, Alan Evans wrote:
> 2010/5/26 Máirín Duffy <duffy(a)fedoraproject.org>:
> > The links you referenced were removed quite explicitly in the
> > design. The assumption was that if someone understands how to use
> > bittorrent, jigdo, and mirror lists, they are more than capable
> > of making use of a search engine to find them.
>
> I hope that this thread is a demonstration that folks who *could*
> use a search engine may have been well-served by a page design that
> didn't deliberately exclude them.
How about the silent group of folks who looked at the old Fedora get
page, had no clue what half of the jargon on the page went, and then
browsed away to look at another distro or worse just stuck with
Windows or OS X?
~m
I'm reminded of Monty Python's Cheese Shop skit, with you playing the
role of the shopkeeper.
-- cmg