On 9 Sep 2026 18:26, Rob Beeston via Boost wrote:
The new boost.org is live. Same peer reviewed libraries trusted by planetary rovers and particle accelerators, now on a site rebuilt to help you find, learn, and ship them faster.
What's new:
• Refreshed look and easier navigation • New user profile pages • Badges for contribution and participation • Community posts filtered by page topic • Prominent site-wide search • Better library search and filtering
Please take a look and we are happy to get any feedback!
Tools (i.e. b2, QuickBook, etc.) are still missing from the library list. The release notes are now a small frame that needs to be scrolled. Why? And it is followed by a huge tile with all the contributors. Library's readme is also a scrollable frame. It is the main piece of content on the page, why is it scrollable and not presented in full? Boost-wide documentation (user's guide, contributor's guide, ML posting policy, etc.) is nowhere to be found. At least, I couldn't find it from the main page. I'm sorry, but this is very much worse than before and is doing the wrong thing to begin with. The old (well, the previous-new) website hasn't even fixed all the functional issues that it had compared to the original website. This new iteration doesn't fix that, adds new issues and seemingly removes content, and in exchange adds just more useless bling. For example, the Community tab is now just a soup of unrelated tiles, from recent posts to installation commands. This page is useless. IMHO, first fix the website so that it provides usable information in a non-mangling and findable manner (i.e. no cut-off text, no weirdly working hotkeys, no missing documentation, etc.). At least reach functional parity with the original website. Then work on theming, improving ergonomics and other non-essential stuff.