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[Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Martin Pool <mbp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2009/9/16 Martin Albisetti <argentina@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> Hello fellow Launchpadians,
>>
>> The end of our 3.0 cycle is approaching, and one of the bug pieces
>> missing from the puzzle is a home page refresh.
>> I've taken a few hours to sketch out something we can work on, and
>> split it into 2, one for logged in users, and one for the ones who
>> aren't. I think we want to take the approach more and more, where
>> logged in users see something different, as they usually have
>> different needs.
>> I'm on leave until next week, so I've also uploaded[1] the balsamiq[2]
>> source files so anyone can tinker with them as the discussion goes on.
>> Once I start work again full speed on Monday, I will be sprinting for
>> 2 weeks, so it's unlikely I will be able to HTMLize this, so I'll need
>> a volunteer to do so and land the branch  :)
>
> I think splitting it into logged in vs not as a very promising
> approach, and you've avoided a trap I probably would have fallen into,
> which is to assume that 'logged in' == 'experienced user', when in
> fact many people logged in will still need some guidance as to how to
> get started, play or learn new features.
>

Agreed.

> There is a question of whether the main user dashboard should be at
> l.n/ or l.n/~mbp or l.n/~mbp/dashboard.  Or arguably the home page
> should redirect to something explicitly named after my dashboard,
> which is what I think rememberthemilk does.

Either it should be launchpad.net or launchpad.net should redirect.

> It may be useful to let
> other people have a url by which they can see a privacy-filtered
> version of my dashboard.
>

Yes, I think so.

Note that we won't actually be doing anything even vaguely along these
lines for 3.0.

I'll try to reply to the original post in more depth sometime later today.

jml