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On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:09:50 +0100, Peter Chant wrote:

> Dan C wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:45:59 +0100, Peter Chant wrote:
>> 
>>> Bud wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Joost Kremers wrote:
>>>>> Dan C wrote:
>>>>>> Yeah, kinda hard to buy stuff from the Slackware Store when the
>>>>>> website is down...  Just tried and everything I click on the Store
>>>>>> site takes me to a freaking "BSD Mall" store site...  Strange.
>>>>>
>>>>> yeah... but the donate button at the top left takes you to paypal
>>>>> where you can donate to the slackware project.
>>> 
>>> Slackware store and donate links need to be on the home page of
>>> www.slackware.com.  They are not obvious, I had to go looking for
>>> them.
>>> They were linked to under 'book'.
>> 
>> Homepage/Get Slack/The Slackware Store
>> 
>> Seems fairly intuitive to me.
>> 
>> 
> Well, perhaps it is to you.

Well, yeah.  I mean if you come to the website to get Slackware, what's 
more obvious than a link called "Get Slack"?

>  However, it is a reasonable assumption that
> an important part of a website like the store would be available on the
> main navigation and as 'donate' is prominent on the home page of many
> open source projects it is reasonable that visitors to the site should
> not have to spend time looking for it.

I'm not arguing that point.  I agree with you, it *could* be more obvious 
than it is.

>  I did not even realise that
> there was a donate option until it were mentioned here - something I
> would have known if it were on the home page.

... Or if you had spent a little more time looking around on the website, 
as I (and others) have...  :)


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