Ok, this is now done. Rather than “Stop” it now says the hopefully slightly less confusing “Take Notice,” and the text is otherwise as I proposed. I agree that this is only a tiny step in a more general streamining of this whole process. Cheers, Gershom On June 26, 2015 at 11:29:25 AM, Mark Lentczner (mark.lentczner@gmail.com) wrote:
Well - it isn't objectionable.... but it is, at best, a stop gap.
Ultimately, what people want when they want to get Haskell installed is a big button marked "Download" - that when pressed starts the download immediately. This is true for beginners and seasoned users alike. It is true on all web sites for all things.
Every link we put in their way looses some percentage, and increases the frustration of others. This change makes it:
1) Google search GHC
2) "Latest news...", search and find Download in left bar, click
3) "Stop! ...", click downloads 4) "You've got options ...", click "Platform 5) "Download button", click
(That last one is actually another click and page load, but we'll be putting the download buttons on the first Platform page in this round.)
The Platform team built and proposed a page for #3 (the haskell.org/downloads) page, that included the Download button for Platform on the detected users's OS, and had top bar links to other options. The sequence should be this:
1) Google search GHC
2) "GHC is cool... Get it with a full Haskell distribution", click
3) (on haskell.org/downloads): "Download Haskell Platform... Download button", click
A page for #3 was built by the Haskell Platform team that included links to other options. You can preview it here:
http://45.55.156.136:8000/demo-3200/download-plan-a2.html
— Mark