<https://www.freebsd.org/ports/> will benefit from a link out to: <https://www.freshports.org/> There's already a link out from <https://www.freebsd.org/ports/searching/>, however the scope of FreshPorts is much broader than search. It should be more prominently linked. Also, <https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35819>: > ⚙ D35819 Upgrade ports intalling section – and bug 265253.
FreeBSD home page <https://www.freebsd.org/> has shouty but easily overlooked: SHORTCUTS – with five shortcuts, including: Ports <https://www.freebsd.org/ports/> Stepping away from home loses SHORTCUTS. Four of the five remain easily accessible through main menus: * the Community menu for mailing lists – and so on. For what was the fifth shortcut, Ports, there's: * no direct route from any menu. Early thoughts ============== Remove the 25th anniversary stuff, which should have been removed years ago. <https://reviews.freebsd.org/D34410> via bug 261058. With all due respect: it's stale clutter, the combination of those two aspects decreases the likelihood of people paying attention to adjacent stuff such as shortcuts. Using uppercase for SHORTCUTS might have been intended to attract attention (shouting) however there should be no need for this section of the page. The main menus – seven, adjacent to the Home button – should be more than enough to comprise all five shortcuts in a way that is both logical and accessible. Allow the main menus to serve their purpose. <https://www.freebsd.org/about/> (from a click on the 'About' menu button, unfortunately not a menu item) mentions ported libraries and applications. Improve the About menu: * 'Introduction' should refer to <https://www.freebsd.org/about/> not to Resources for Newbies * add a menu item <https://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies/>, named 'Newcomers' or 'Newbies' or 'Resources for Newbies' (although the word newbies might too colloquial for a menu for a project such as FreeBSD … needs more thought) * add a menu item 'Ports Collection' <https://www.freebsd.org/ports/>. Then remove the SHORTCUTS area from the home page (and so on … a broader discussion, for anyone who'd like to join me in chat). Thanks
(In reply to Graham Perrin from comment #1) > … enough to comprise … Correction: > … enough to include …
I'm gonna: * Add FreshPorts to the ports sidenav * Remove the 25th anniversary stuff * Change to lowercase the SHORTCUTS * Add a link to ports to the about menu About the other things. I'm gonna finish in a couple of weeks the new manual pages using Mandoc. When I have this finished I'll start with the new website. And then we can talk about the new menus, etc. I'll ping you when I'm gonna start this.
A commit in branch main references this bug: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=41a39b1b9049a17b2a63c59e07d7adee5a362cc2 commit 41a39b1b9049a17b2a63c59e07d7adee5a362cc2 Author: Sergio Carlavilla Delgado <carlavilla@FreeBSD.org> AuthorDate: 2022-07-24 10:40:13 +0000 Commit: Sergio Carlavilla Delgado <carlavilla@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2022-07-24 10:40:13 +0000 Make ports page less obscure and add links to FreshPorts Changes: * Make ports page less obscure adding a link in the about menu * Put SHORTCUTS in lowercase * Add FreshPorts link in the ports sidenav section PR: 265264 Submitted by: grahamperrin@ website/themes/beastie/i18n/de.toml | 2 +- website/themes/beastie/i18n/en.toml | 2 +- website/themes/beastie/i18n/es.toml | 2 +- website/themes/beastie/i18n/nl.toml | 2 +- website/themes/beastie/layouts/partials/sidenav.html | 1 + website/themes/beastie/layouts/partials/site-navigation.html | 3 +++ 6 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)