19 Sep 2021

[culture]

Hammermann09 ^{has been working on a redesign concept for Monero’s website Getmonero.org:}

[..] the basic idea is that Monero’s website looks aged and doesn’t provide a very pleasant experience for visitors and users.

For more details, the community can inspect the included Figma file^.

While the overall feedback has been positive, the community has outlined several potential problems regarding the proposal:

• added complexity and thus a potentially higher entry barrier for new contributors
• introduction of new security risks (if Javascript is used)
• unwanted bloat that would automatically add to current page loading times, which in turn would leave out a lot of users with poor connections and limited bandwidth
• lack of dedicated resources for testing, review and implementation
• a switch from a light to dark theme might have some psychological implications in how Monero will be perceived

Exactly how a full redesign like this would impact the Monero community, the larger crypto world’s views of us and XMR’s core cypherpunk values is unknown.

If you have feedback, post a comment in the Reddit thread^.