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:
>
>> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 16:18, Andrew Sayers
>> <andrew-20081218_at_pileofstuff.org> wrote:
>>> Andy Levy wrote:
>>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>
>>> By "download page", I'm referring to http://tortoisesvn.net/
>>> downloads,
>>> which is copyright of the TSVN team. It hadn't occurred to me that
>>> there'd be an SF downloads page, which I agree wouldn't be a TSVN
>>> issue.
>>
>> Those ads are still managed externally. I'm sure there there's some
>> settings that Google Ads allows one to change, but I'm sure someone
>> will find a way to object to pretty much anything that appears in that
>> space.
>
> But the ad is very poorly positioned (or well positioned if you are
> the advertiser). When I went to the page to download TortoiseSVN the
> advert was a big button with a label saying "Click to Download" (it's
> not at the moment). Naturally I pressed that button expecting my
> download to start and got taken to an advertiser's web site instead.
>
> Whether the page is hosted by SourceForge or not, it is still a part
> of TortoiseSVN's web site so the TortoiseSVN project bears ultimate
> responsibility for what is a pretty poor piece of web design.
This discussion seems to be about as important as the one about the
changelog checkbox in the installer, IMHO.
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.
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