Re:GNU Denemo 1.1
by eliasmacpherson on Friday November 29, 2013 @08:00AM
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Don't be disheartened. I find that kind of dated look reassuring - it hasn't been broken for so long that nobody dared to fix it! People have relied on the software, and it's in repositories and what's more it (sometimes) continues to be recommended.
Something new and shiny makes me wonder "how long will this last", I suppose because of advances in web technology it doesn't take as long to put a nice website together. Sometimes I even wonder if time would have been better spent on the actual project and not the website.
In this case, the new website design was sort of "donated" by one of our former GSoC students, so it's not like it took away development from Octave itself. The student's GSoC contributions were to another website project of ours.
As a GNU Octave dev, it makes me feel sad that "GNU" no longer has the cachet that it had in the 90's and early 00's. It went from being a mark of quality to being outdated, disorganised, and lunatic.
Oh well. I still support GNU. Hopefully you'll like the new GNU Octave web design we're working on.