Moin, On 05.08.2015 22:24, Manu Gupta wrote:
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 6:03 AM, Henne Vogelsang <hvogel@opensuse.org> wrote:
On 03.08.2015 04:23, Manu Gupta wrote:
A large percentage of the ~45K/day users who visit that page are looking for information about our distribution.
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Sadly neither the old page nor the new page do a very good job at that.
A better way should be to play to user's preferences. -->Do you prefer speed or Are you a developer? Use Tumbleweed --> Do you want a stable system that just works? Use Leap --> Do you want LTS? Use Evergreen
Choices choices choices. Putting choices in front of people is _very_ bad for conversions. The more options people have, the more likely they will just close the page... Just make a sensible default and sell hard what most people want to have anyway: A Linux OS. Then when you have their general interest in your OS you can offer special interest releases like Tumbleweed, Evergreen or Li-Fe. 95% of what all our releases offer is the same anyway!
Second, the contributions corner. It is uninviting for non-technical contributors. There is no mention of it and it does not help at all with the issues we are already facing
It's again a matter of focus. What do we want that the majority of people that visit this page do?
Again, Yes but do we want to exclude non-technical contributors?
No, we want to encourage _all_ contributions so we have to 'sell' contributing itself. Which means telling people why contributing is a good thing, why they should best contribute to OUR project, what benefits contributing brings to their life. You can give them the choice of what to do once you have convinced them to try it. Same as with installing the distribution... Henne -- Henne Vogelsang http://www.opensuse.org Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org