What do you folks think about the opensuse.org design?
Do you think, it makes it easy to find all stuff you look for?
If I look at ubuntu.com you can find really every essential ressource at the top of the page, just where you expect it.
At opensuse.org you find the links to community forums at the bottom of the page and even no link to doc.opensuse.org…
Anyone who finds the current design perfectly userfriendly?
Since forever,
I’ve found information to be relatively unorganized and ad hoc, and pages which can contain stale information(ag SDB Portal and List of SDB articles).
https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Support_database
https://en.opensuse.org/Category:SDB
That doesn’t mean though that information is hard to find, since the Internet search engines have become pretty good at ranking pages.
What I think is missing (and needed) is perhaps an official page that lists and describes the various different “universes” of information so that the User can browse like reading a book, visiting areas of interest… That is very different than having a specific need in mind and looking for the single or few most important relevant articles. The probable effect would be to drive traffic to often overlooked places like blogs, personal Wikis, announcements, stories, etc. And, if there is an official page, not only would we all know that one page is maintained, the things listed on that page would likely be better maintained as well.
Also, if more traffic is driven to these kinds of sites, of course you’ll get a reciprocal loopback effect where people will develop a stronger interest in creating these kinds of things.
If openSUSE/SUSE is truly interested in actively fostering this type of stuff, it’s not something that can succeed ad hoc today, there needs to be dedicated (possibly paid) management, design, and of course feedback, eg. installing a ranking system, sort of like what Facebook “likes” do and making trending analysis freely available to viewers.
IMO,
TSU
The present openSUSE design is less meaningful as the previous one during openSUSE 13 and / or 14 with more whitespace and simple blocks of texts. Back then, information was more legible on openSUSE workstations. The present design, which seems pretty responsive as a website theme, loads decent on an Android smartphone with a 7¨ screen, yet, on computing workstation products by openSUSE such as Leap, they seem illogical. Let us say that the next release of Leap is supporting more mobile devices, then this makes sense, but at this point of typing the present website is pretty much transitional. These days I mostly pop by connect.opensuse.org directly as well as this forum instead of bothering with loading the main www page.