[Pidgin] #2012: I am sorry, but your Website sucks.

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#2012: I am sorry, but your Website sucks.
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  Reporter:  blubb0r  |       Owner:                      
      Type:  defect   |      Status:  new                 
  Priority:  minor    |   Milestone:                      
 Component:  webpage  |     Version:  2.0.2               
Resolution:           |    Keywords:  Pidgin website sucks
   Pending:  0        |  
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Comment (by blubb0r):

 Well, I already gave you some examples.

 Okay, just imagine you were a user and wanted to find a new smiley theme.
 First you would try to use search. It begins with the fact that there
 isn't a search form on the home page. So you have to go to the "Support
 and Development" page and search from there. After finding the "Smiley
 Themes" page, you can't find a link to a page where you can find some
 themes. I know, you don't provide third-party stuff and I should use
 Google, but a good site would give some links anyway.
 Another example: You want to program an plugin and need to have the
 Libpurple development headers. Where can you find them? Here you could
 also use Google, that's clear, but as I said, this isn't very user-
 friendly.

 Example number 3: You want to compile the source code on a Linux system.
 Of course, there are instructions for this in the downloaded package, but
 as you probably know, there are lots of users who don't know this. You
 should everytime remember that also a person who doesn't know a lot about
 computers maybe wants to use your software (in German we call these people
 "DAU", I don't know if there is an English translation ;-) ).

 Then, the plugin HOWTOs should be listed on the Development page and not
 on this page called "Related sites", because nobody searches THERE for
 plugin HOWTOs (maybe there should be an extra page about plugins).

 Well, I could still give you more examples, but later please. ;)

 '''All in all, this is just MY opinion, it may be good if some other users
 commented on this, too.'''

 Sincerely (<- Sorry, i misspelled this word in my first post, as I said,
 English isn't my native language)

    me

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