[okfn-labs] okfnlabs rebranding

Wed May 29 20:09:25 UTC 2013

Here's a screenshot from the Internet Archive's snapshot from a month
ago<http://web.archive.org/web/20130501175907/http://okfnlabs.org/>
:

[image: Inline image 2]

And okfnlabs as it is now <http://okfnlabs.org/>:

[image: Inline image 1]

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 11:55 PM, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Could someone please post a screenshot of the old version?  I clearly
> didn't pay enough attention to it to remember what the differences are.
>  BTW, clean design is not "anti-hacker."  Have volunteer (as opposed to
> paid) hacking dropped off significantly since the change?
>
> My feedback on the current version:
> - main page is too long -- I don't need to see blog posts from the summer
> of 2012
> - logo doesn't work at icon res (looks fine full res) and, I think, is
> squished horizontally
> - projects page just spins forever "loading data"
> - events page lists 6+ month old events from 2012
>
> Tom
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Gregor Aisch <gregor.aisch at okfn.org>wrote:
>
>>
>> Oh no, what happened to the dark & wam & geeky okfnlabs theme?
>>
>> To me the new look feels rather cold and emotionless, like a bright,
>> windowless office room illuminated with neon tubes, lacking any sign of
>> personality and human life. Not a fun place to hang around and hack on
>> interesting stuff, but a serious place to do serious work on (probably
>> boring) projects.
>>
>> While I see that this is formally correctly representing the OKF
>> corporate identity, the design has moved far away from attracting geeks and
>> hackers, which I thought used to be the purpose of of the site.
>>
>> Best,
>> Gregor
>>
>>
>>
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