[Adium-devl] Random thoughts about 1.0final

[Christopher Forsythe]

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On Aug 20, 2006, at 5:29 AM, Colin Barrett wrote:

> 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 :)
>

It seems like this would be nothing more than us stroking our egos.  
David got a lot of feedback at wwdc that the website is simple, and I  
think it makes sense to keep it that way. I don't think adding a  
odometer or any kind of widget in the "hit counter" genre would do  
much more than add some distraction to the main page

> 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.


Due to the large amount of feedback it took to get the website to an  
acceptable point last time, I definitely don't want to go through  
that again. What we have works well with everything.

Personally I associate it with Adium, and not any single version number.

I don't think we have enough resources to pull off another change and  
not delay the release. And I would prefer to leave it as an easy to  
use website.

Chris