[webteam] radical simplicity

[Florian Jensen]

Artur Hefczyc wrote:
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> All these stuff are distributed over different websites right now:
> www.jabber.org
> jabberforum.org
> planet.jabber.org
> and maybe something else.
> I would be good to combine them all in a single service under
> www.jabber.org.

No. We tried this, and we had in the few months the site user database 
getting filled up with registrations of people who thought that they 
actually get an IM account (16.786 afair). I think it is good to 
seperate the community site from the informational site. They can 
ofcourse be linked together on some levels, but there should remain a 
clear difference. The people who should have an account should be the 
devs, in order for them to publish their client / server information.

>
>> Your thoughts are welcome. :)
>
> That would be simply step back. Sacrifice functionality to minimize
> chance for
> human mistakes?
I agree, that it would be a pity to go back to a static page. 
Especially, after all the work that has been put into the new website. I 
say, we speed up the development of our Drupal 6 site, hoping that all 
the problems we had are fixed in the modules. We prepare the new site on 
a freshly installed machine with lighttpd and php5 (athena soon?) and 
then simply do the switch. We get rid of the oversized user db, we keep 
open registration disabled, as it will simply confuse people. Now we 
know what problems there are with Drupal, so we can do it better on the 
new Drupal 6.

Just my 2 cents ... or paragraphs :)

Greets,

Florian Jensen