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.
Unsurprisingly, the first links for each
'fedora torrent', 'fedora mirrors', and 'fedora jigdo' on Google
direct
you to the correct location. However, for those users who don't
understand what those things are and don't need them, the new design is
a vast improvement in preventing them from having to navigate around a
cluttered grid of links full of complicated jargon in order to get
Fedora. A search engine would not be of any use in solving their
problem.
I'm sure that I'm not the only one who wasted a considerable amount of
time looking for options that, although quite reasonably expected to
be, simply weren't there. The fact that a search engine is available
doesn't imply that it's my first choice, especially when I think I
know where to find my answers without it.
-Alan