On 5/26/2010 4:22 PM, Alan Evans wrote: > 2010/5/26 Máirín Duffy <duffy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> The links you referenced were removed quite explicitly in the design. >> The assumption was that if someone understands how to use bittorrent, >> jigdo, and mirror lists, they are more than capable of making use of a >> search engine to find them. > > I hope that this thread is a demonstration that folks who *could* use > a search engine may have been well-served by a page design that didn't > deliberately exclude them. > >> Unsurprisingly, the first links for each >> 'fedora torrent', 'fedora mirrors', and 'fedora jigdo' on Google direct >> you to the correct location. However, for those users who don't >> understand what those things are and don't need them, the new design is >> a vast improvement in preventing them from having to navigate around a >> cluttered grid of links full of complicated jargon in order to get >> Fedora. A search engine would not be of any use in solving their >> problem. > > I'm sure that I'm not the only one who wasted a considerable amount of > time looking for options that, although quite reasonably expected to > be, simply weren't there. The fact that a search engine is available > doesn't imply that it's my first choice, especially when I think I > know where to find my answers without it. You did not see this? A *Whole* Page* of torrent links for deltaiso downloads? http://marc.info/?l=fedora-test-list&m=127473883718662&w=2 -- David
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