On Wed, 22 May 2019 at 21:32, Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 5/22/19 2:48 PM, Roman Danyliw wrote:
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> > Your caution is noted. Next to nothing is comprehensively collected now so the proposal is positioning for future decision making on the basis of usage data.
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> The site is so poorly organized now (at least from the perspective of a
> 30-year IETF participant) that I have to wonder how meaningful any
> statistics based on this site will be. There may be a temptation to
> use the statistics to justify small incremental changes to the site when
>
> On 5/22/19 2:48 PM, Roman Danyliw wrote:
>
> > Your caution is noted. Next to nothing is comprehensively collected now so the proposal is positioning for future decision making on the basis of usage data.
>
> The site is so poorly organized now (at least from the perspective of a
> 30-year IETF participant) that I have to wonder how meaningful any
> statistics based on this site will be. There may be a temptation to
> use the statistics to justify small incremental changes to the site when
> a complete redesign is needed. ...
+1 The present design is positively grotesque
> .... Will the statistics provide any
> indication of that?
Weighing and measuring frustrated users digging through a mountain of waffle to find anything useful, provides little insight into how a better design would perform.
--Dick
