[Pdweb] platform_* images

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Mar 7, 2008, at 5:59 PM, zmoelnig at iem.at wrote:

> Quoting Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org>:
>
>> Pd-extended is listed first on that page, since a lot more people
>> download pd-extended from that page than pd-vanilla (for the last two
>> releases of each, it's ~70k for PdE and ~24k for PdV).  Plus since  
>> Pd-
>> extended includes all the work of the community, it makes sense that
>> it would be the primary download on the community site.
>
>
> i am not saying it shouldn't be listed prominently.
> however: when i look at that page (with a resolution of 1024x768 which
> i assume can be considered as "standard"), i basically _only_ see
> Pd-extended (i know that scrolling is simple, but i am talking about
> first impressions here)
>
> even though pd-extended might prove more worthy for most of the users,
> i also think that your statistics are biased because most people will
> have the feeling that there is _only_ pd-extended (and all the rest is
> for the weird).
>
> this would probably be less of a problem if pd-ext would be more
> uptodate in terms of the core components.

The only thing holding back the next release is hours of work.  The  
process would go faster if there are more people contributing :)

.hc


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