[tor-bugs] #2992 [Website]: bridge-by-default bundle links on blog are transient

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#2992: bridge-by-default bundle links on blog are transient
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    Reporter:  cypherpunks  |       Owner:  erinn   
        Type:  defect       |      Status:  reopened
    Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:          
   Component:  Website      |     Version:          
  Resolution:               |    Keywords:          
      Parent:               |      Points:          
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Comment(by arma):

 Replying to [comment:5 erinn]:
 > Okay, I added the bridge bundle link and a little information:
 >
 > https://torproject.org/download/download
 >
 > So.
 >
 > 1. Is it confusing? I want to make it clear why using a bridge-by-
 default bundle might be preferable, but the wording could be clearer/more
 succinct/more informative somehow. I don't know that anyone will read the
 bridge page, so a better description would help.

 I think it's ok.

 > 2. There's no stable bridge-by-default bundle and that is making the
 formatting wonky. I'll fix that by making a stable bundle, unless there's
 some reason stable is not a useful bridge-by-default version to have.

 I'd say you'll have more fun fixing the formatting than you will making a
 whole separate set of bridge-by-default bundles and then maintaining them
 forevermore. I expect most bridge-by-default users will be people who
 download and run the thing because somebody tells them to, and don't even
 use the client part of Tor -- not otherwise ordinary Tor users who didn't
 want to figure out what to click in Vidalia. One version at a time should
 be plenty.

 > Separately, the more I look at this page, the less clear it is how I
 should go about offering the Firefox 4 TBBs. "There are FIVE ways to use
 Tor!" seems like it could be the maximum level of confusing, so since it's
 not the easy download page, do I just assume people can say "hey yeah I
 want the Firefox 4 TBBs" or do I leave those on the TBB page itself, to be
 discovered by people who manage to find their way there?

 Depends how much testing you want them to get. Sticking them on the
 download page if you think they might not work is probably premature. But
 that said, you have to get from here to there somehow. I'd suggest just
 replacing the main TBB with the new TBB once you think everybody 'should
 work'.

 > More on topic for this bug title: should I link to non-TBB bundles with
 the download page, and link to TBB with the TBB page?

 If you do that, few people will use TBB, which is the opposite of what
 phobos seems to want.

 I'd say one way to get out of this situation (you're right, the download
 page Windows section sure has a lot of choices) is to get us closer to the
 day when download-easy is the default page people get when they click on
 'download'.

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