[Ur] New website?

[Orchidaceae Phalaenopsis]

I whole heartedly agree with ml at extensibl.com

Improving error messages in the compiler and producing learning
resources would help users much more.

On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 2:16 AM,  <ml at extensibl.com> wrote:
> The current website is awesome - simple, functional and just works
> on most (all?) devices - there is no good reason to replace it with anything.
>
> My opinion is that time and efforts should be spent on the actual language, framework and tools,
> rather than distractions like this.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 01:32:18PM -0400, Adam Chlipala wrote:
>> Thanks to everyone for their thoughts on the project web site. Here's my
>> summary of the 5-ish opinions expressed:
>> - It's not clear that the large background graphic from Torstein's design is
>> the way to go.  Somehow it may be out of keeping with the "character" of the
>> Ur/Web project.
>> - Adding a live-coding demo section seems like a no-brainer.  I started a
>> separate discussion thread looking for someone to spearhead an
>> implementation.
>> - Moving to Git & GitHub also seems like a no-brainer.  One concern about
>> GitHub was expressed, regarding censorship.  I personally am not too worried
>> there, as it's easy to maintain "mirrors" of a Git repository all over the
>> place, to be ready in case one main provider goes over to the dark side.
>> The pros seem to outweigh the cons, considering how many potential
>> contributors already have GitHub accounts and are used to using GitHub.
>> - It may still be worth tweaking the graphical design of the Ur project
>> site, but I'm not seeing a clear consensus right now on exactly how that
>> should look.  (I really don't mind the current site. :P)
>>
>> Another very useful thing would be a tutorial that doesn't assume ML and
>> Haskell familiarity, ideally written by someone beside me, since Ur/Web's
>> design has been in some sense optimized for my brain. :) Any takers there?
>>
>> On 07/27/2015 08:30 PM, Stefan Scott Alexander wrote:
>> >Also, "eating your own dog food" would probably be a plus. It only makes
>> >sense that a website for a web programming language should be programmed
>> >in the language itself.
>>
>> I'm not sure about this one.  Ur/Web is for web _apps_, not web _sites_, so
>> it may be a mismatch for a largely static site.
>>
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