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Re: First draft of the Emacs website
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David Kastrup |
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Re: First draft of the Emacs website |
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Fri, 04 Dec 2015 07:06:38 +0100 |
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John Yates <address@hidden> writes:
> Drew,
>
> You and I are old "grey beards". My point was that mentioning things that
> we - as seasoned users of Emacs - like is quite a bit different from
> imagining the website as a sales pitch to someone who has not used Emacs
> but _might_ - given an appropriate message - be coaxed into trying it. If
> you accept such messaging as the site's first goal then you have to try to
> put yourself in the mindset of such a viewer.
>
> Your comments suggest that perhaps you do not buy into that being the first
> goal.
Why would a newcomer be interested in an old tool that merely does what
the new tools already do? "Run with the herd like an octogenarian" is
not a sales pitch. For better or worse, the reason to choose Emacs over
other options is for the things it does differently, not the things it
tries doing the same.
--
David Kastrup
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