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I have no comment about CUPS, but I will say that I find this site to be pleasant on the eyes, even if it is just bootstrap. I feel like half the reason people don't want to use Debian or GNU stuff or other free software is because the sites themselves are fugly remnants of the mid-nineties and leave much to be desired from a usability standpoint.

How hard would it be to simply wrap their boring html and drop it into a bog standard bootstrap? Like, a day?

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Why don't you volunteer to improve the design of the webpages of the OSS projects that you think would need it?

"Submit a patch."

By far not every project does it like php and host their website sourcecode on a github repo.

How do you know I haven't?

Funnily enough that page design is actually bugged on my WinXP/FF31.0. - the floating menubar part covers the top line of content. Looks like a screen-size problem (I'm on a 1024px laptop) that fixes with either smaller font-size or added padding to .breadcrumb.

My point I guess is that web design is often harder than it looks. OSS projects with limited resources are better using Github or Sourceforge or similar, IMO, rather than trying to keep on top of web page design decisions to cater for ever changing UAs.

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