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💬 Discussion | what should /summary fka /classic highlight? #896
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I don't want to create a /summary/ page or add highlights to the /classic/ page, but I would be open to adding 3-6 very important tools to the index page if we wanted. Something like:
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Here is the current /classic page, which is a throwback to the 2015-thru-2018 site design where everything was all in one page. As part of the design-revamp, most tools are now split into their own subpages, for ease of linking (and SEO and so on), but also to allow "more room" for expanding page-content. I liked the old layout, because it was 'easy' for a beginner to skim the page and get some solid advice on all their stuff: browser, im/voip, email, OSes, etc ... as well as some grounding in why privacy matters, how extensive mass surveillance is, and other foundational basics.
The new layout has advantages, but one of the disadvantages is ease-of-readability. It will help once the current split-into-subpages design adds some navigation hints (e.g. button where readers can click here for the previous subpage and click here for the next subpage organized in book-with-chapters sort of fashion).
But I still think that a top-level one-big-page summary of the main recommendations, and the main philosophical/legal points, has value. Plenty of first-time visitors will not WANT to read a book on tools to improve their privacy: they will want a "top N tools" list they can skim through which gives them some ready-to-put-into-use-immediately suggestions on what to use instead of chrome + gmail + facebook + windows10, and we don't want to bury torBrowser + tutanota + mastodon + qubesOS away on four different pages of the big-book-of-chapters-layout. Or rather, we do want that, but we also want to have /summary -- the page which summarizes the crucial stuff.
This isssue is requesting discussion, of WHAT stuff is crucial. Most people would probably agree that about:config tweaks, are not as crucial as top3 browser-recommendations... and thus, likely it makes sense to put the about:config tweaks onto the /browsers subpage but not mention them (except in the form of a "for more information" hyperlink) on the /summary section devoted to top3 browsers. What should be on /summary though? Top3 recommendations for sure. What about the worthMentioning, should those be on the /summary or only on the /browsers subpage, if they exist for a particular tools-category? What about browser-addons, should that be on the /summary or is that too-much-detail and it should be on the /browsers only?
Here are the 39 existing /classic sections
UK US
NL NO
ES SE
IN IE NO
RU SA UK
NZ NL US
IT PL
SE CH
httpsEv deCent TOSDR
NoScript
Suggest eliding these bits from the /summary page
UK US
NL NO
ES SE
5eyes mapAU CA FRIN IE
NORU SA
UKBEET FINZ NL USDEISITPLSECHavoid USA-basedcriteriarel.linksexamplesrel.linksexplanationrel.linksfirefox howtochrome/etchttpsEv deCent TOSDR
uMatrixNoScript
b-tweaksaboutConfiggHacks pyllyukkorel.linksconfidant inABoxrel.linksricochet+tor howtorel.linksprivateBin-by-disrootdisroot3dudle LibreOfficexPrivacyLuarel.linksgood newsmore bad newsresourcesguide linksinfo linkstool linksIn addition to eliding details, I would suggest that /summary ought to include more details than it currently does, specifically, that each of the top3 entries should have a short list of pros-n-cons. This might be 3pros + 3cons for each top3 entry, or might be 5pros + 5cons for each top3 entry, depending on how much space is considered "cluttered". An example layout of the pros-n-cons on subpages, versus pros-n-cons on the /summary page, can be seen here https://github.com/privacytoolsIO/privacytools.io/issues/882#issuecomment-487785086 -- see also #596
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