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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 23:52:45 -0400
From: sl@stanleylieber.com
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Subject: Re: [9front] RFC: add a downloads.md page
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here's what i did:

- integrated most of the requested information into the latest and all
future release announcements.  this seems like a good place for the
information, and alleviates having to duplicate it anywhere else on
the site (except for more detailed instructions in the fqa; see
below).  note: this still requires loading some images, but is the
difference in load time really that meaningful?

- download/ added to the top bar on all 9front sites (redirects to
releases/).

- bugs.9front.org removed from the top bar on all 9front sites (nobody
complained when the bugs.9front.org front page has been defunct for
several years).  which reminds me: http://9front.org/bugtracker

- iso/ removed from the sidebar (redundant).

- releases/ moved from About: to Download: on the sidebar.

- kept the link to the dash 1 under Download:, because why not have it
there?  unless we create a long list of all the available files to be
downloaded, we're never going to have "one click" downloading of
bootable files on the front page.  if there is some compelling
argument for removing more helpful links from the sidebar, please let
me know.

here's what needs to be done:

- someone write a patch for fqa4 detailing specific instructions for
creating bootable media in all the present forms we support.  we
already have old instructions, but they were never updated to reflect
the changes made since 2016.  once that's done, we can also link to it
specifically in the release announcement.

- fqa documentation of rpi stuff is so far outdated as to be useless.

it may seem like i'm parsing this awfully finely here, but i'm not
sure how much extra effort is justified to satisfy the
"zero-to-installed" metric for users incapable of locating the
.iso/.img files, or for ones incapable of conceiving what to do with
them once they've found them.  the location of the files has never
been a mystery, and what to do with them is the same thing you'd do
with an .iso or .img from any operating system.  i do think the
instructions are good to provide, i'm just not sure it all belongs on
the download page, be that the primary or auxiliary variety.

anyway, let me know if this sucks.

sl