New Art Site

[William Ingram]

Hello,

The site will be taken down as of now.

If anyone at Canonical would like to get in touch with me, I'll be happy
to donate the domain.

-Will

On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 01:02 -0500, psychoelmo wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 17:49:26 +1300, Pizbit <pizbit at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 23:13:46 -0400, William Ingram <will at lunarpages.com> wrote:
> > > The registration requirement, is a simple email.
> > >
> > > I am doing this, because those who participate, will be given things
> > > such as ubuntu-art.org mail address, and webhosting accounts.
> > Ahh, makes sense to require registration for all that:) Just seems,
> > dang I can never spell that word! Erm, means un-needed 'cept it ends
> > in ary or something *g* to require registration for those who just
> > want to quickly download a theme or image.
> > 
> > >
> > > I will also be holding monthly contests soon, in which prizes will be
> > > given.
> > >
> > > Another reason for this, is that I am also running a U.S. mirror for iso
> > > images on this server, and I would like to gauge the bandwidth a little.
> > >
> > > Im am not sure why the registration is troublesome, as many sites
> > > require registration to download, and certainly to upload.
> 
> > This is more a general thing than specifically aimed at your site so
> > please don't take it the wrong way.
> > gnome-look.org kde-look.org only require registration for voting and
> > uploading I believe, all the downloading doesn't require registration.
> > art.gnome.org not having registration at all it'd seem.
> > Simple put it's 'yet another site' requiring registration that might
> > never be used again, it gets tiring after a while. The whole basis for
> > the bugmenot extension for firefox. :)
> > I agree totally on registration for upload though.
> 
> agreed.
> 
> fact is, most people are turned off by mandatory registration,
> particularily to browse something as trivial as desktop art or to
> download a free file. nor will they care about a ubuntu-art email
> address, hosting account, uploading content, contests, or anything
> else that a server account actually makes sense for. all they want to
> do is browse content and download what appeals to them.
> 
> registration for ppl who want an email account, hosting account, or
> will upload content makes sense. requiring registration of everybody
> who wants to browse past the index page does not.
>