Hi Stephane,
At 01:16 AM 15-01-2018, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
Again, not a good reason. The old site had no obvious problem, there
was no compelling reason to change. If "it was done by volunteers,
work or shup up" is the rule, I will start to submit random patches to
the Linux kernel and reply to all criticisms by "I'm a volunteer, shut
up".
The text which you quoted might be the rule for the work done by some
"groups". If a person is doing some work for free and does not
derive any direct or indirect benefit from that work, how would that
person react if he/she received a flood of extremely unpleasant
comments? That does not mean that there cannot be any criticism.
The design brief from Torchbox Ltd states that "The site's aesthetic
will draw inspiration from" www.gov.uk. In my opinion, the new
website does not come even close to that. I clicked on a few links
and I got a few 404s. I can think of a few ways to try and avoid
such an issue before a site goes into production.
Regards,
S. Moonesamy