> On 17 Jul 2017, at 17:31, Martin Rex <mrex@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: >> >> I think a missing aspect of the web site, which should be prominent in >> both the home page and also the ?contact? page, is all the social media. >> >> I see there is a ?share this page? at the right of the main picture, >> but in my opinion, is not clearly visible and is not enough >> (the logos of the social networks should be recognized without... > > Cough, cough, WHAT??? > > Please get rid of the "social media" crap entirely. I thought that > there was an IETF consensus that privcay is sensible and useful, and > strong privacy protections should be the default. > > > Facebook, Twitter and other "social media" crap is the far opposite of > strongy privacy, so none of this should be encouraged or promoted by > the IETF. > > > > Comparing the bandwidth necessary to load the entire homepage, > I notice the following issues: > > https://www.ietf.org/ Total 188176 bytes (mainly by accident, it seems) > The visible page _contents_ are just fine, > > but the page designer goofed the photo in the meeting information, > because the picture is transferred at size 640x427 taking up 150270 bytes, > although it is actually being displayed at just 200x133, where a > pre-scaled image would need just 17 KBytes. > > Even on my 5" Smartphone, the https://www.ietf.org/ loads just fine, > I get the whole picture immediately, and can zoon into my area of interest. > > > http://www.ietf.org/ Total 1195800 bytes (ouch ouch ouch ouch). > > is a completely botched page design. it needs multi-page scrolldown > even on a big desktop screen, and finding stuff has become extremely > difficult. > > This page even manages to provide *ZERO* intelligible information > when loaded on my SmartPhone > > only shows the Welcome / Revamp <Learn More> + Social Media Crap Buttons > > and when scrolling down the multiple pages of crap on my SmartPhone, > very close to zero of the links _that_used_to_be_ on https://www.ietf.org > pass by. > > > Normally I close such bloated ad & nag screens immediately, though > nowadays uBlock saves my health by ensuring that most of such crap > does not even get displayed on any of my screens (desktop & mobile) > in the first place. > > The huge background picture (IETF-Past-Meetings.max-4000x4000.jpg) > with 763216 Bytes is just crazy. Is this about a party/festival? > A *HUGE* waste of network bandwidth and memory (RAM and on-disk cache) > and writing text over photos also make reading difficult (poor contrast). > > > > All in all, my personal summary for https://beta.ietf.org/ > > disgusting and extremly bloated, usless and highly confusing. I disagree about social media. I believe those links are useless but mostly harmless. Really, nobody is going to get interested in Internet standardization because some friend shared the front page, but I don’t lose any privacy because somebody was sent a link to a public page. I agree about the design. Yoav
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