launchpad homepage should emphasize activity, not mass
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Launchpad itself |
Triaged
|
Low
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
When you go to the front page of Launchpad you get a list of how big the database for Launchpad is. Here's the example from today:
15,710 projects, 487,353 bugs, 243,268 branches, 1,310,815 translations, 91,760 answers, 22,757 blueprints, and counting...
Honestly, who cares? That's very unexciting, and just makes the whole thing feel very static. Instead of listing the size of the database I think that the homepage should focus on *what's happening* on Launchpad. Talk about the now instead of the data accumulated. Here's a thought on what I think it should be:
Yesterday there were 2,385 comments on bugs, 384 revisions added, 7,483 strings translated by over 1,442 passioinate individuals. Come join us!
Way more exciting and talks about what you can do with Launchpad more than the size of it.
affects: | launchpad → launchpad-foundations |
affects: | launchpad-foundations → launchpad-web |
Changed in launchpad-web: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
summary: |
- Launchpad shouldn't present itself as a database + launchpad homepage should emphasize activity, not mass |
This should depend on whether or not you are logged in - once I'm logged in, I do not want to see a "Come join us!" message. I want to read about how my own projects are doing.