[Ur] New website?

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On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Adam Chlipala <adamc at csail.mit.edu> wrote:
> Thanks, Torstein, for taking the initiative on this sort of thing!
>
> Some context for others: Torstein originally contacted me privately.  I
> responded that I'm indeed used to reading complaints about the design of the
> Ur project site, but that's it's never been clear to me what the defensible
> essence of the complaints is.  To me, the current site looks just fine and
> seems efficient to use to find the information that visitors will come
> looking for. Torstein's point about the difficulty of bookmarking with
> frames is one I hadn't thought of before, so it forms the only objective
> objection that I'm aware of now.
>
> However, I may be out of touch with the psychology of today's developers.  I
> see it as a feature, not a bug, to turn away "the average programmer," who
> probably will find the cognitive "ticket price" of Ur/Web to be too high,
> but I don't want to turn away potential productive users.
>
> So, I asked Torstein to send his suggestion to this mailing list. I'm
> genuinely interested in thoughts from the current Ur community, which will
> naturally be biased toward those who weren't turned away by the current or
> past designs, but who may still have some useful insights.  In case anyone
> is worried about simple "me too"-ism in bogging down this mailing list with
> one-line messages of agreement or disagreement, I'd be happy to receive
> thoughts in messages addressed only to me.
>
> On 07/15/2015 09:11 AM, Torstein Saltvedt wrote:
>>
>> I would be happy to implement it - but if so I'd like to use a static site
>> generator and host it using GitHub pages. There are some technical things to
>> consider if so, especially regarding the demos.
>
>
> Actually, this would be an opportunity to address another common complaint,
> that the web site for a web framework should be implemented with that same
> framework.  I'd lean toward creating an Ur/Web app, in place of using some
> other static site generator.
>
>> Would it be out of the question to move the project over to GitHub? It
>> would make the Ur/Web project a lot more accessible to other developers.
>
>
> I'm seriously considering moving to GitHub in the near future.  I'll be
> interested if anyone has any reasons to propose for _not_ switching from
> Mercurial to Git and GitHub.
>
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