The site had around 7000 lines of CSS and 23,000 lines of JS. It also
used a framework called "Zurb" to build the layout. We're planning to
rebrand the website and to make that work easier I think it would help
me (and hopefully those that come after me) to strip out all of these
technologies and recreate the site with a simple stylesheet.
By doing so I think we lose a couple of features, such as the zooming hover
states on the grids of images. Some features, like the "sticky" header
are probably better implemented nowadays in pure CSS.
Given that the site is maintained by volunteers I think the simpler we
can make it the better.
We don't have a process to ensure that emails to our internal list
(contact@coops.tech) are replied to in a timely manner/at all. At the
moment we appear to have 5 legitimate emails from the 13 March that
don't appear to have replies.
I hope that encouraging people to post to the forum will increase the
chance that they receive a reply.
I think there are further improvements we can make, by clarifying the
joining process for example, but this is a good enough start.
Showing all of the client logos adds a considerable amount to the page
weight of the page. This change shows 6 random clients. It will be
re-generated each time the page is deployed, which might be OK for
now, although we could add timed pipeline to keep this fresh/fair.
This updates the number to be the same as it currently is on
coops.tech. There's a separate
issue (https://git.coop/cotech/website/issues/29) to populate this
from the YAML front matter in each file under `_coops`.
This updates the number to be the same as it is today on
coops.tech (the wordpress site). There's some extra work to do to make
this "dynamic" in https://git.coop/cotech/website/issues/73.
