Why DU3's home page was a better design for a Democratic community than DU4's. The news and our responses.

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22. Again it is day 1

Ok let me give you an example. Let’s say i side your code there are all sorts of page includes and linked files such as style sheets, scripts, and other things that need to be brought into the page in order to work correctly. And being a website you have many pages (files) that comprise your entire site. The big day comes around for rollout and you’ve been operating in the dev environment. You got everything staged to go to prod environment. Updated all your config files, set all the database connection credentials. And modified those external resource links to point where you need them…. Except it is entirely possible to leave one or two out because it IS a big fucking job. On top of that you are dealing with a CDN such as cloudflare or another option and some of those files that are referenced in your site are cached versions that point back to the old version…. So when the end user loads the site it doesn’t work all that great. Things don’t look right to some users. Some see them correctly because caching at the CDN level isn’t an all or nothing thing. It rolls out to different areas or different users at different times sometimes. And then there are the human mistakes that I referenced. Like something was hardcoded instead of variabalized and so that needed to be tracked down and realized. Oh by the way this upgrade probably started late at night or early or at least the preparation did and so the site admins are likely tired and working hard to correct the issue so that users can use the site….

And here you are complaining about the content on the home page not being what you want it to be right now… On day 1….. Do you know who manages the home page? Is it EarlG or Elad? Because those two are probably pretty busy right now. I’d wager that not everything on the home page is purely content driven and it gets auto-populated. I would wager that someone adds content to that page. And I’d also be willing to bet that in the middle of the post-release debugging phase of a major update they would appreciate just a bit of patience.