Comments on: SourceForge.net Update: 2009-04-30 Edition

By: jknowler

jknowler — Fri, 22 May 2009 19:20:40 +0000

I personally liked the old format better.

By: hcenters

hcenters — Fri, 22 May 2009 11:07:02 +0000

drugs

By: steven8turner

steven8turner — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:39:30 +0000

I am excited…new site! yay

By: bzratfink

bzratfink — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:55:32 +0000

I think it would be nice to have an almost ALL black theme. That would look very good IMHO and much less bright-blinding-white looking. But it looks nice the way it is. I just wish I could see my projects and bookmarks and stuff right from the front page still.

By: randolf3

randolf3 — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:18:20 +0000

Hello,

besides the categories of source development and consumption i hope to learn more about source development in sourceforge.net. Maybe more people have this goal.
Thank you for all your efforts.

By: codeprogrammer

codeprogrammer — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:02:13 +0000

I do not mind the new look, but what I do miss are the project update news that used to be on the front page. I found out about many interesting projects I did not even know existed all on the home page. I wish they could have left that on the front page instead of posting kinda useless info like how many downloads happened during the week. Do we really need to know that?

By: stephenjudge1

stephenjudge1 — Fri, 08 May 2009 07:40:16 +0000

I really miss the orange-ness , it was refreshing for me, this new black look is depressing and scary, orange is warm and welcoming.

Two things are missing for me, when I find a project I like, I bookmark it in Sourceforge. Once logged in there used to be an easy drop down menu up in the top right by the logout button, there was an easy to access option in that menu to quickly bookmark a project. Where’d it go, now if I want to book mark, I have to go into my account, manually add a bookmark and copy and paste the project URL into it. Please give us an easy way to bookmark, I like the system the Google Code site uses of just clicking a simple star to bookmark, just like Firefox.

Also on the navigation menu bar for each project, there was a way to expand and reduce the menu, I really liked that, it it options I don’t need and that frankly confused me and left me with what I wanted, and if I wanted any of the other options I expand it. It was smooth I liked it.

Actually to be honest I can’t see anything about the new design that I like, what really has changed apart from removing some features and changing the colour.

By: elmar_weber

elmar_weber — Fri, 08 May 2009 01:41:27 +0000

like the new design, but there is one big flaw (or maybe I just missed it): when logged in, there is no quickmenu to access the projects of oneself

By: tekreloaded

tekreloaded — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:35:33 +0000

Personally, I find the new look a refreshing and interesting change - most importantly, it makes the site appear less cluttered and just that bit easier to use. (Also, while the orange added a unique personality to the site, the new theme is a little easier on the eyes at the very least :smile:)

By: dav7

dav7 — Wed, 06 May 2009 23:48:55 +0000

I must admit that I liked the older design - a majority of black and white on a website just isn’t my thing.

I understand how complex it is to manage site theming - I’ve been trying to figure out a way in my head to make data and layout like each other coherently while staying flexible for a long time now - but I’d love to have multiple theme support so I could switch back to the old design.

At least, being able to specify a 3rd party .css file would be cool, like the Internet Archive do… I wonder what designers would be able to do with that :>

Just my $0.02.