Re: [Gimp-user] Weird forum and layout

[Pat David <patdavid gmail com>]

Typo in the URL: https://www.gimp.org
On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 8:05 AM Pat David <patdavid gmail com> wrote:

> This is not a forum, it's a bridge to a traditional mailing list that can
> be found here:
>
> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
>
> Or you can use the archives to see threaded conversations:
>
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
>
> This website is _not_ run by the official GIMP team - that can be found at
> https://wwe.gimp.org.
>
> I suggest you have a look at the official website and check out the user
> documentation (help) and tutorials there.
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 8:01 AM Boxman <forums gimpusers com> wrote:
>
> Man, I'm having trouble understanding the layout of this website and
> forums, as
> well as the design philosophy behind GIMP user interface.
> For starters, on the home page its hard to tell what the content is when
> so much
> of it looks like advertisements. Then, on the forums, only bits and pieces
> of
> them are shown. I don't see any display of the overall listing of posts and
> responses as we get with other forums. Although I found a longer list of
> just
> post topics, most of them were labled as awaiting moderator approval. Not
> much
> help.
>
> Even in making this post, I got confused at the lack of a "post" button.
> Instead, there is a captcha box that looks like an ad directly above a
> real ad
> that has
> TWO captcha words in it. Which one am I to use? Took me 4 tries to get it
> right,
> not knowing whether they were case sensitive. Then, outside the box, in
> tiny
> letters is a button "create discussion,"
>
> What I am saying is that it is so radically different that I find it very
> hard
> to use. There must be some point behind the design of layout, but I'm not
> getting it. Like GIMP itself, I don't understand why the developers would
> want
> to create something so different from what we are familiar with, and have
> invested huge amounts of time learning, so that to use GIMP we now have to
> relearn everything we  thought we knew. This situation is really giving me
> second thoughts about whether I want to go through with this steep
> re-education
> curve unless there is some great benefit here that I fail to understand.
>
> While I appreciate the huge voluntary effort that made in creating a free
> app,
> and it is not my intention to take anything away from that, I just can't
> comprehend why it was done the way it was. It seems to me its radical
> differences won't do much to attract new users.
>
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