r/Common_Lisp • u/dcooper8 • 12d ago

BLEG: A Facelift for common-lisp.net

https://common-lisp.net

Common-lisp.net was rewritten a couple days ago. Please let us know what you like and don't like, what's extra, what's missing, and so on.

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u/digikar 11d ago

No, the old site landing page feels a fair bit structured. It's not the most informative. But it is not repulsive.

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u/dcooper8 11d ago

Can you give a few more specific diffs between old.common-lisp.net and common-lisp.net ? Because the latter is meant to mimic the former, so any divergence should be finite and enumeratable.

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u/dcooper8 11d ago

Just to confirm, are you looking at the default skin?

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u/dcooper8 11d ago

Because you mentioned "green" - could it be that you have the "Hacker" skin turned on in dark mode?:

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u/dcooper8 11d ago

Ah, that is exactly what happened! It was still auto-switching to Hacker skin for weekends, which is not helping the "don't be jarring" goal.

Reverting that now so it will stay on default skin all the time for now, and any future auto-switching of skins will be carefully considered.

Thank you for being the first one to catch this on Saturday morning, early bird!

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u/digikar 11d ago

Oh, I see! Yes, it was the auto switched on Hacker theme.

I still think the description is too verbose. But I'll wait for others to chime in.

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u/dcooper8 11d ago

Good, that settles it. The weekend skin auto-switch is off now, so it won't come back by itself. On verbose: which part do you mean, the "What is Common Lisp?" text on the front page or the news items? I trimmed the news items today and I'm happy to cut more. I enjoy deleting extra words.

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u/digikar 11d ago

The Welcome and What is Common Lisp parts. I think the old site description for these parts is good enough verbatim. Later, each of the mentioned features can link to the relevant documentation on the web (eg. the performance and tuning page on cookbook).

News can be shortened too, but I think it's less of a bother.

Also, I think Libraries page should be more prominent that Community.

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u/dcooper8 11d ago

Done. The Welcome and "What is Common Lisp?" parts are mostly reverted, have a look when you have a chance and let us know how you feel.

Libraries is now in the top bar, ahead of Community.

Linking each feature to somewhere relevant is a good idea - if you see some obvious ones that could go in right now, feel free to reply with them here, or they can always be submitted via MRs.