My suggestion would be to let the Counter shine within the green header of the forum a month before the new release comes out. Also it should change its language according the brwosers loaction (e.g a user from Italy would see a counter in italian language). I know that one can spread the word by linking to the countdown timer on OpenSuse Countdown Timer, but why in the world don´t we have one here? That way, everyone visiting the forum would be infected with the same exitement as we do…
What´s your openion - should we have one integrated into the header once it´s time again?
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 17:16 +0000, TheMask wrote:
> POLL: WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE AN OPENSUSE RELEASE COUNTER
> COUNTING BACKWARDS THE DAYS TO THE NEXT RELEASE ON OUR FORUM?
>
> [image: [IMG]http://counter.opensuse.org/11.2/medium]
>
> My suggestion would be to let the Counter shine within the green header
> of the forum a month before the new release comes out. Also it should
> change its language according the brwosers loaction (e.g a user from
> Italy would see a counter in italian language). I know that one can
> spread the word by linking to the countdown timer on ‘OpenSuse Countdown
> Timer’ (http://en.opensuse.org/Countdown), but why in the world don´t we
> have one here? That way, everyone visiting the forum would be infected
> with the same exitement as we do…
>
> What´s your openion - should we have one integrated into the header
> once it´s time again?
>
>
I’d like to see a counter link that was NOT version specific. Thus
websites do not have to change their links to see the count down to
the next release.
Absolutely, cjcox. I´m still wondering why noone has considered to provide a countdown for the forum yet. As I said, many people visit the forum just to look up something and if we´d have a counter in the header, people would immediately notice and they might even think “Hey there´s a new release! Hm…why not give OpenSuse a try?”
On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 08:46 +0000, TheMask wrote:
> Absolutely, cjcox. I´m still wondering why noone has considered to
> provide a countdown for the forum yet. As I said, many people visit the
> forum just to look up something and if we´d have a counter in the
> header, people would immediately notice and they might even think “Hey
> there´s a new release! Hm…why not give OpenSuse a try?”
But not just for the forum. I’d want people to put a link to the counter
on every site out there… but it’s a pain when the URL changes with
EVERY release (the other distros are not much better).
cjcox: I just noticed that the counter is still perfectly valid without any version information. So this might be the solution: http://counter.opensuse.org/medium
In my point of view that would be too much. You´ll never know exactly what is being fixed last minute and on top of that… a simple counter like the above would suffer.
Your argument is totally unacceptable for me. Distrowatch? Yep, then feel free to talk to the site maintainers - including the image won’t be a problem at all. In my point of view, Space is not a severe issue here. If not in the header, on the left is plenty.
You know, not every newcomer is taking a look at Distrowatch and why not put a small counter on the OpenSuse-Forum, the place where the heart of thze operating system pumps?
On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 18:36 +0000, TheMask wrote:
> cjcox: I just noticed that the counter is still perfectly valid without
> any version information. So this might be the solution:
> http://counter.opensuse.org/medium
Ok, let my clarify what I ment to say:
I see the counter a million times a day and to put it in the forum is not so relevant for me (and it always kinda grabs my attention beeing so difrent green than the rest)
By “Distrowatch…” I ment everyware so we could spread this distro like a disease and use it to control the world… :X I mean for peopple to n joy
A think having a counter here makes perfect sense. At distrowatch, you’d have to really convince them. They’d probably hide behind a policy of something like, if we did that for openSUSE, then we’d have to do that for everyone else. Here at the forums makes sense.
