[Haskell-cafe] Leaner Haskell.org frontpage

[wren ng thornton]

Don Stewart wrote:
> ttencate:
>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 18:33, Don Stewart<dons at galois.com> wrote:
>>> ttencate:
>>>> Are there any kind of hard statistics and analytics that we can base
>>>> this discussion upon? There is always room for improvement, but
>>>> stumbling around in the dark making blind guesses may not be the best
>>>> way to go. Although I personally feel that Lenny's proposed page is an
>>>> improvement, statistics could tell us what actual people actually use
>>>> the site for.
>> Thanks Don, I should have thought of that. It's a start!
> 
> No matter what we decide, I'd like to advocate for maintaining the RSS
> feed of Hackage uploads on the front page -- this is what makes the page
> seem alive and active, and was introduced in response to John Hughes
> complaining the page was always out of date. (Similar to the Arch Linux
> package updates: http://www.archlinux.org/)

+1.

I also like the events listing, since community events tend to be one of 
the hardest things to get a single concrete listing of.

-- 
Live well,
~wren