[ocaml-infra] Redesigning OCaml.org

[Maxence Guesdon]

On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 01:37:30 +0100
Daniel Bünzli <daniel.buenzli at erratique.ch> wrote:

> Le vendredi, 9 août 2013 à 00:18, Amir Chaudhry a écrit :
> > Despite that, I disagree that we need proper text to assess the design. If it doesn't work with lipsum, then adding text will *not* miraculously save it.
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> That's not what was said. What was said is "it's not because it works with lipsum that it will work with the content" hence it's better to check the design with the real content, for the reasons you mention yourself.
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> > *Reducing* the density of content and effective use of white-space makes things easier to navigate (there's less to mentally process before making a decision).
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> This is wrong in general. It highly depends on how you define "easier to navigate", especially easier for *who*, e.g. recurring visitor vs casual one, etc. Besides reducing the density may imply scrolling and inability of seeing all the options at the same time. But sure, there's a tradeoff and the right balance has to be found.  
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> > I completely agree that 'popular' is a misnomer. 'Most downloaded' makes way more sense. I did find the list useful when I saw it in OPAM as I had no idea that so many things depend on ocamlfind.

Why not show a random list of packages, rather than always the same
short list of most downloaded (which can make them stay the most
downloaded).

- m