Re: Bug report: Make the main advert on the downloads page less confusing

On 19 Dec 2008, at 18:25, Andy Levy wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 09:01, Jeremy Pereira <jeremypnet_at_mac.com>
> wrote:
>> On 19 Dec 2008, at 12:56, Andy Levy wrote:
>>
> This discussion seems to be about as important as the one about the
> changelog checkbox in the installer, IMHO.

If you think having the public face of TortoiseSVN looking like some
spam site is unimportant, then fine.

>
>
> In a corporate environment, one person should be downloading the
> installer from the official site, then distributing internally (shared
> drive, internal distribution website, ZENWorks, Active Directory
> policy "push", SMS, etc.). For non-corporate users, I'd expect that
> someone savvy enough to know what TSVN is & that they need/want to use
> it in the first place can work around the ads.

The ad I saw was deliberately designed and positioned to look like it
was the button to download TortoiseSVN. It made it look like the site
was deliberately using subterfuge to gain ad clicks.

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