> On 15 Jan 2018, at 11:50, S Moonesamy <sm+ietf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. It would be nice if it did look like www.gov.uk; lots of easy to see and read links readily available without scrolling. The gov.uk site is underpinned by some great work on open data. Tim