[Adium-devl] Random thoughts about 1.0final

[Colin Barrett]

First thought: Operation "Giant numbers, baby".

Since we expect to significantly increase our userbase with 1.0 final,  
I think this would be a neat trick, and would be a bit of a nice way  
to thank everyone who's using Adium. On the front page, we could have  
a large counter, perhaps looking like a car odometer, saying how many  
downloads of Adium 1.0 we've had so far. It would be really sweet if  
that number ever had 7 digits :)

Second thought: Project "Not necessarily old and busted, but that's  
definitely the new hotness".

Our current website is nice, clean, and functional. It's also been our  
website throughout the 0.8x series, and is (at least to me) associated  
with that version of Adium. Considering how big of a leap 1.0 is, I  
think we should really hammer that point home to our users by  
deploying a new website. It doesn't have to have fancy new features,  
or really even be all that different. Perhaps something a bit more "OS  
X"-like (or not) The various indie dev websites all seem to have some  
commonalities in design, mostly stemming from Apple's look and feel.  
Perhaps we should look in to going down that road? Colloquy's website  
is an alright example of this -- although the brown color isn't the  
nicest. How about a green? It's pretty much the official color of  
Adium, what with Adiumy being all green & all :) I still like having  
the duck be the big ol' download button. Very no-nonsense, which is a  
very Adium-like attitude.

What do you guys think? My only concern with the second idea is that  
it may delay the roll out of 1.0, which we definitely don't want to do.

-Colin