[tor-mirrors] Outdated mirrors hide / Link to the 'Mirrors' at title page

[Andrew Lewman]

On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:27:47 +0400
Thwarth Wrhalthssen <wrhalthssen at ya.ru> wrote:

> I think the mirrors page should be redesigned a little. What is the 
> purpose of displaying all outdated and non-accessible mirrors? The 
> owners of such mirrors are barely interested in maintaining them, so,
> I think, the best option is just to remove or hide them from the
> list. If owner of such mirror is interested in running it updated,
> he'll notice, that his site isn't listed anymore, he'll update it and
> his mirror will show up again in the list. Additionaly, it would be
> great to add a Javascript code to the list to make it possible to
> filter mirrors by country and services accessible (and a tiny country
> flags, just for lucidity).

Mostly because people find the mirrors in search engine results, and
when it links to our page, they find they're out of date. This is a
hint to not use them.

Frankly, the whole mirroring system needs a rewrite and update.

> The second issue is the access to the mirrors page. For now you need
> to scroll down to the bottom page and find a tiny 'Mirrors' link in
> the 'Get Involved' section. Isn't it difficult enough? The Tor
> software is blocked in variety of countries and the mirrors are
> essential part of maintaining Tor website accessible, so isn't it
> right to make a link to the mirrors list somehow more accessible? I
> mean, for example, put 'Mirrors' list in the top navigation section
> ('Home', 'About Tor' etc). I believe lot of people failed to find
> this list just because it's location on the site is non-obvious.
> Maybe a crucial part of them are simply don't know the mirrors list
> exist.

Mostly because we know people find the mirrors via search engines, not
linking to our site. If torproject.org is blocked, finding the mirrors
page isn't going to help you.

We're open to ideas here.

-- 
Andrew
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