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

[Knoll Lars]

On 17/09/14 22:17, "Knoll Lars" <Lars.Knoll at digia.com> wrote:

>On 17/09/14 21:55, "Mark Gaiser" <markg85 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Kuba Ober <kuba at mareimbrium.org> wrote:
>>> 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).
>
>Well, most sites out there I know start a download automatically if you
>click on a download button (which you probably did from qt.io/download to
>get to the page you mentioned).

Adding to myself: But I agree that downloading to a phone doesn't make too
much sense, and we should probably detect that you look at the site from a
mobile device. That part sounds like a plain old bug.

>>> 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).
>>
>>Why so hostile?
>>Please try to give constructive feedback to those making the site.
>
>Yes, please. The site is new, and there are bugs in there and things that
>are not perfect. We still have a long list of known issues that need to be
>sorted out. Still we feel that the site is now in a state that is is a
>clear improvement over the old qt.digia.com site. We launched it because
>of that and to be able to collect feedback from the community and our
>users.
>
>Cheers,
>Lars
>
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