Dead End everywhere - Improve your Website/Tool

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 5:55 AM bo0od <bo0od at riseup.net> wrote:

> Hi There,
>

Hi!  Thanks for your feedback on your experience getting started.


>
> im trying to test tahoe-lafs and the website sorta doesnt lead to nice
> communication style. E.g:
>
> - Trac Tickets i cant find where/how to register within it
> https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/timeline it show "Preferences"
> Instead of "Register" at the top right corner of the trac = WTF! how can
> some access preferences without having an account in the first?!
>
>
Yes.  This is unfortunate.  We haven't found an effective way to manage
spam on trac with open registration, so there is no open registration.
I've added information to the front page explaining how to get an account.
As far as general usability issues with trac, that's a bit beyond the scope
of the Tahoe-LAFS project.


> - No support channel to join like IRC or Matrix ... even mailing list
> inexperienced users cant find it.
>

I've added a reference to the IRC channel to the front page, too.


>
> - LeastAuthority and Gridsync suffering badly for the same thing, no
> clear whether they are dead or alive no direct contact channels i dont
> know where to pay or register in order to use S4 and connect with
> Gridsync (if i understand the steps correctly..)
>

Hm.  I see the sponsorship link to Least Authority at the bottom of the
front page.  I'll see what I can do about updating that.

GridSync is an open-source project separate from Tahoe-LAFS.  I can try to
draw cypher's attention to your feedback, though.


>
> .... let alone many links outdated not working anymore either
> redirecting you to newer one or it just disappeared.
>

Kind of a tragedy of the web, eh?  If you want to point out specific broken
links I suppose they can be addressed on a case-by-case basis.  As long as
the web is the web and there are any third-party links, though, I suspect
this is an issue that cannot be resolved, just monitored.

Thanks again for the feedback,
Jean-Paul
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