Re:Please review the new tarsnap website
by cperciva on Sunday September 13, 2009 @08:09PM
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realized later that they were sub-menu items
Aha, that explains it. I did the menus this way because I (a) wanted to avoid javascript, and (b) thought it looked good -- but if it's confusing people I'd better see if I can find a different way of presenting the menu structure.
I looked on the Download page and expected to be told that I could also find it in sysutils/tarsnap.
Good point. Yeah, I should look at revising this page to point people at OS-specific instructions first, with the full install-from-autoconfed-source instructions only as a fallback for systems where I don't have special instructions.
Thanks for the feedback!
You are extremely intelligent and an excellent engineer. But a designer or marketer you are not: focus on what you're good at, and convince people who are good at the other things to work with you (or teach you how to do it well).
Nope. It sounds like exactly that for which I was looking. I couldn't (or rather, didn't) find it because I thought the indented bits under the Tarsnap label were telling me which things were included on the page I was on. I know, for example, that I saw News there.. and also News included just above the fold of the page I was on.
In fact, I suppose realized later that they were sub-menu items. When I went to the Design page and clicked on the Security link, I recognized that the menu on the left changed. I'm pretty sure it would not have occurred to me to click on them directly, however.
I spent maybe 90 seconds trying to find info about your work and the company, unsuccessfully. I don't know if this is, in any way, useful feedback. I mostly seem to be pointing out my inadequacies as a user, not providing any solutions to my so-called problems.
FreeBSD isn't unique in having packaging metadata
I looked on the Download page and expected to be told (especially around the time you mention that BSD systems usually have the OpenSSL header files already installed) that I could also find it in sysutils/tarsnap.
I hope my comment proves more helpful than it appears from my end.