[JDEV] What does een IM system need to reach the end user (Was: Re: [JDEV] Poll about who will use Jabber when Trillian comes out)

[Adrian Rapa]

hi, i am the maintainer of jabber.ro and honestly.... you're right...
but we are developers not designers... not human relations... if someone
would give us some hints we would be glad (me at least) to improve the
site...


Adrian Rapa

Pe Thu, 12 Jun 2003 01:54:54 +0200 (CEST)
maqi at jabberstudio.org a scris:

> On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Dave Smith wrote:
> 
> >> As with the whole Jabber philosophy, we don't need a "big
> >jabber.org> community site", we need several smaller sites with good
> >setups - I> think of a *good* WWW presentation of the major Jabber
> >servers
> [...]
> > It's not cheap to host a "central" Jabber server. So far, we've been
> > lucky -- good people have donated bandwidth for jabber.org
> [...]
> > Besides, the whole _point_ of the Jabber project is that there
> > should be a host  (pardon the pun) of decentralized Jabber servers,
> > like email.
> 
> Either I misunderstand you or you misunderstood me. That's exactly
> what I meant: I don't say "let's make jabber.org more colorful!", I
> say "the way to go is to make the major Jabber servers more user
> friendly".
> 
> Take a look at the WWW pages of the Jabber server listed on
> http://www.jabber.org/user/publicservers.php
> 
> Most servers do not look user friendly at all from a "WWW" point of
> view - no information on the web sites, no client downloads, some even
> don't have an easy-to-find website at all... I think *that's* a
> problem, not jabber.org being a bit technical (in fact I think it
> presents a very good mix and is easy to navigate so absolutely no need
> to change jabber.org's basic WWW design [again]).
> 
> Perhaps it would be a good idea to have some kind of quality
> requirements for a Jabber server to be listed in the public servers
> list. As a start, I don't think it's good to have sites listed there
> that don't run a decent WWW page at all. Another requirement could be
> that there should be links to the User Guide/General FAQ/End-User FAQ
> (time for i18n). Or, as a start, removing defunct servers from the
> list would also be good ;-). I'll try to contribute a bit to make the
> list better.
> 
> Regards
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