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

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:25:32 -0500

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 19:02, Andrew Sayers
<andrew-subversion.org_at_pileofstuff.org> wrote:
> I have just tried to get a non-technical user to install and use
> Subversion. Although she was okay using the software, there were two
> serious and easily fixable problems with installing it. This is a
> report for the second of the two.
>
> When you disable Adblock, the TortoiseSVN download page includes an
> advert at the top with a large orange lozenge marked "click here". A
> user instructed to go to the download page will click on that lozenge no
> matter what they're told to do, then wonder why TortoiseSVN isn't
> installing. This is especially true for users with a small screen,
> where the lozenge is the only obvious thing on the page.

The ad page is purely a Sourceforge thing and cannot be controlled by
the TSVN folks. It's the price one pays for hosting with Soruceforge.

> I'm not sure what to suggest to fix this bug. Without knowing
> TortoiseSVN's arrangement with Google, and how much revenue is generated
> that specific ad, it's difficult to suggest how better to balance the
> priorities. Some suggestions include:

The appearance/layout of a download page that is not under the control
of the TSVN project is not a "bug."

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