[Development] www.qt.io/download-open-source is broken

Kuba Ober kuba at mareimbrium.org
Wed Sep 17 21:37:48 CEST 2014


I’d like to personally scold whoever came up with the idea of starting the “default” download at www.qt.io/download-open-source. I, for one, never download the default installer since it was always subtly broken in one fashion or another, I always build from source. So now, the genius responsible for this is also responsible for wasting tons of bandwidth for useless downloads, and for wasting 20MB *repeatedly* off of my 1GB monthly mobile plan. Thank you very much (NOT).

So much for the usability of the new site, and for wishing to explore it from a phone. The person responsible should be scolded until it sinks in. I’m not kidding. This is form over substance at its finest. I like modern designs, but they must be actually usable. qt.io right now is like a very well manicured pig (with apologies to bacon).

Cheers, Kuba Ober


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