FreeBSD website redesign...

I noticed immediately big icons, then that the big icons do nothing, then that I saw no links in the text associated to the big icons which do nothing. I read enough of the text associated with the big icons which do nothing to ascertain that, while it wasn't actually dolorem ipsum filler, it seemed mostly unimportant. I noted the dreadful hamburger icon but instead scrolled down to find a link to another page where there was a further link to the FreeBSD Handbook, the object of my curiosity. I'm not a web designer but I know what I like. I like for the bolded Documentation header to be clickable and take me to the documentation. Sorry if the seems negative. For what it's worth I don't use a smart phone so most of these newer design choices are just small annoyances. If y'all like this good on you. I'll do the extra clicks and complain no more.
 
i mean who even is visiting the FreeBSD website from their phone, if you think about it··· i think this was pretty pointless to change too
 
I like these two mockup versions generated by Gemini. I like them both a lot.

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mer said:
I personally hate trying to design UI/UX stuff. Not my forte. I can code the backend to give you what happens when you click here, but making it pretty? Nope,
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That's the whole point:
Designing an UI is about functionality and efficiency in usage, not to look pretty.
A functional and efficient in usage UI is automatically pretty, while a primarily designed to be pretty one is not good in funcionality and efficiency, because that was not its primary design task.

But today there is only a very tiny minority who let you even allow you to explain that, because everybody knows what looks cool; must know, 'cause cool looks sell, while functionality and efficiency are just nice terms you may use because they sound so nicely, but actually their true meaning is unkown, and unimportant anyway, because since almost everybody is used to highly ineffecient UIs bad in functionality are standard, almost nobody can judge anymore.

While at the same time, and that's the 🤪 part of it:
True unix lovers prefer terminals for main UI. Those are the most "ugly" to look at UI, so "boring" text only, but they are by far the single most efficient UI in usage offering most functionality (for the most of the tasks at a computer, as long as you don't do some graphical design stuff [even CAD comes way more efficient in usage when using the CLI.])

But explain that even in a society saying they love unix[like] but pushing lots of pressure to drive it more and more to windowslike GUIs, and a foundation not using FreeBSD themselves as primary daily drivers - selling something they are not using themselves to others not knowing what the whole show in it's true core is really all about.

Now watch the shitstorm I receive for this post (my point exactly.)
End of Story.
I have already all said what all I can say to this topic, so I'm out of here.
 
Maturin said:
That's the whole point:
Designing an UI is about functionality and efficiency in usage, not to look pretty.
A functional and efficient in usage UI is automatically pretty, while a primarily designed to be pretty one is not good in funcionality and efficiency, because that was not its primary design task.

But today there is only a very tiny minority who let you even allow you to explain that, because everybody knows what looks cool; must know, 'cause cool looks sell, while functionality and efficiency are just nice terms you may use because they sound so nicely, but actually their true meaning is unkown, and unimportant anyway, because since almost everybody is used to highly ineffecient UIs bad in functionality are standard, almost nobody can judge anymore.

While at the same time, and that's the 🤪 part of it:
True unix lovers prefer terminals for main UI. Those are the most "ugly" to look at UI, so "boring" text only, but they are by far the single most efficient UI in usage offering most functionality (for the most of the tasks at a computer, as long as you don't do some graphical design stuff [even CAD comes way more efficient in usage when using the CLI.])

But explain that even in a society saying they love unix[like] but pushing lots of pressure to drive it more and more to windowslike GUIs, and a foundation not using FreeBSD themselves as primary daily drivers - selling something they are not using themselves to others not knowing what the whole show in it's true core is really all about.

Now watch the shitstorm I receive for this post (my point exactly.)
End of Story.
I have already all said what all I can say to this topic, so I'm out of here.
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I have a (correction)10.1" SW3-013(/correction) tablet it's an Acer but the baytrail graphics aren't supported so it's now my freebsd 15 terminal for my backpack.

Anyway, checking the new website design in chawan, renders very clean in the terminal. No hamburger menu, bottom navigation working nicely. Looking good in the tui.

EDIT: Just logged into the forum with chawan and things render nicely here too. 😁👍

Oh just another note on chawan. I did have to create ~/.chawan/config.toml and enable JavaScript and cookies for the forum to work properly.

Code: 
scripting = true
cookies = true
 
scottro said:
I don't see a hamburger menu (using waterfox on a desktop computer).
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I'm using waterfox; it seems to be a size related issue. If the horizontal dimension is less than about 970 you get the hamburger, above that you get the old style menu.
 
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