[tantek]Note the context that this was especially necessary for mailing lists. Ultimately we gave up on mailing lists because the labor required exceeded the community volunteer labor available
[tantek]When a system requires unsustainable community labor, that system is inappropriate and undesirable for a sustainable community and should be avoided and or removed
[Paul_Robert_Ll]So, it would seem less than easy to share a link to a demo of the homepage and theme tweaks, but I guess it’s possible to try them yourself by editing your own custom css user stylesheets, and viewing a version of an updated homepage:
[tantek]I’m curious about the use of the large black rectangle with inverted text on a otherwise plain white text page. Is that a known effective design approach for communicating a summary of a page or site? It strikes me more like a warning
[Al_Abut]And it’s not black, right? Looks brown to me, like a darker variant of the light beige below it, so it doesn’t come across as a warning at all. A warning or error would be if it’s an alarm color - e.g. yellow, red, orange, etc - especially if paired with an icon or verbiage.
[Paul_Robert_Ll][tantek] I agree with the dark box at the top, it is quite overwhelming, more so since I moved some of the intro text into it. Will try an alternative.
capjamesgtracydurnell[d] I saw on the 2021 homepage page that you'd be interested in contributing writing / graphics. It looks like there is a bit of movement on the homepage now, so if that offer is still on the table I'm sure we'd love to get to work on something!
capjamesgAnother thing that would be nice is a "featured website" / maybe a grid of three websites of the week. Taken at random from chatnames, it's an easy way to find new websites.
capjamesgThis is related to the "People - if we're going to call ourselves a people-centric web we really should show some people 😉 Could take a variety of forms like:" suggestion on the 2021 homepage.
[Paul_Robert_Ll]Just want to point out that the immediate goal is to have an updated version of the homepage that doesn’t break with vector 2022 selected, helping transition to that theme being the default.
capjamesgIf we add such a grid, it would be nice to have a link to the IndieWeb Stream (to show that people here are actively doing things on their own websites), and maybe the posts about the IndieWeb page.
capjamesgOn a separate note, I think the HWC image should be taken from a recent online HWC (with permission from all pictured) rather than an in person event from 4-5 years ago.
aaronpkis the current state of the new version documented somewhere on the wiki where people can take a look at it? It wasn't clear from the chat scrollback what is the latest version
mattbcool> Bridged with #indieweb-meta on irc.libera.chat and #meta on Slack; published on chat.indieweb.org. Do not use threads, because our common denominator is IRC.
mattbcool> Bridged with #indieweb-meta on irc.libera.chat and #meta on Slack; published on chat.indieweb.org. Do not use threads, because our common denominator is IRC.
[Paul_Robert_Ll]Is it helpful if I create a page on the wiki outlining the improvements to the homepage with screenshots, and using this change to enable the newer Vector theme? Happy to do so if it moves this forward.
campegg.comcreated /User:Campegg.com/common.css (+2617) "Created page with "/* * Update Vector 2022 styles to use system-ui font and other adjustments. * This brings the design of the site closer inline with events.indieweb.org * and makes it look a little less like Wikipedia. */ .mw-body h1, .mw-body-content h1, .mw-body-content h2, .mw-page-container, .mw-page-title-main, .mw-page-title-namespace, .mw-page-title-separator, .mw-headline, .mw-first-heading { font-family: system-ui, sans-serif; } .mw-body-content h1, .mw-headline, .mw-page..."" (view diff)
LoqiIt looks like we don't have a page for "homepage brainstorming" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "homepage brainstorming is ____", a sentence describing the term)
[tantek]capjamesg, re: new/different features for the home page, I know we have a page for collecting such things with a bunch of suggested modules already inspired by some of Wikipedia's homepage modules
Loqisite-homepage is an ongoing project to iteratively improve the IndieWeb.org site homepage to make it more responsive, and more accessible & useful to more generations https://indieweb.org/homepage_redesign
[tantek]capjamesg checkout the new suggested live modules there in particular. I think I need to make subheadings for them because some of their prose descriptions have gotten quite long https://indieweb.org/site-homepage#New_live_modules
LoqiIt looks like we don't have a page for "homepage brainstorming" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "homepage brainstorming is ____", a sentence describing the term)
Loqisite-homepage is an ongoing project to iteratively improve the IndieWeb.org site homepage to make it more responsive, and more accessible & useful to more generations https://indieweb.org/homepage_brainstorming
LoqiJust generated this week's newsletter! You still have a few minutes to make changes, and I'll re-generate it 10 minutes before it gets sent out at 3pm Pacific time. https://indieweb.org/this-week/2024-01-19.html