I wrote a new about page for Less Wrong and put it in that wiki page. (Previously, it contained a copy of the current About Less Wrong page.) Louie, for one, has seen it and likes it.
That’s great. Thanks.
I’ve been thinking of this as a page that could be linked from a note in the header image that says something like “First visit? Start here...”
I was planning on “About”, with the “First visit?” stuff being content in the body of the home page.
It’s not clear to me that we also need the ‘HomePage’ thing. Is the plan to have a static homepage? If so, I would think it’s better to not have it be an article-ish thing but more like a front-page-of-a-webzine thing.
I agree that front-page-of-a-webzine sounds about right for the front page. The front page’s main jobs are:
let new users quickly see what we’re about
let those who’ve not yet set up sensible bookmarks (etc.) fairly quickly navigate to where they’re going
I humbly suggest that a “static” front page should still be content imported from the wiki page (for which the current page is merely bad seed material), and updatable by the community (or the eds, if bad community stuff occurs).
That’s great. Thanks.
I was planning on “About”, with the “First visit?” stuff being content in the body of the home page.
I agree that front-page-of-a-webzine sounds about right for the front page. The front page’s main jobs are:
let new users quickly see what we’re about
let those who’ve not yet set up sensible bookmarks (etc.) fairly quickly navigate to where they’re going
I humbly suggest that a “static” front page should still be content imported from the wiki page (for which the current page is merely bad seed material), and updatable by the community (or the eds, if bad community stuff occurs).