I think it's probably easier to start from a cleaner slate for this
redesign, rather than try to incrementally refactor towards the new
design. Some of the base styles are fine and I've retained some of the
CSS variables. I've also kept the header as it probably will be useful
to refactor rather than completely re-do this.
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.
