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mahrud commented Mar 13, 2021

I'll be honest: the current website is dysfunctional, and it is a very real and significant barrier to learning the language. This isn't just my opinion. Ask anyone who has tried to learn the language within the last decade and they'll tell you that it's unfriendly -- that is, if they didn't out right give up, thinking M2 is too old to be worth learning.

Instead of just importing the old 2000's style website, let's actually design a better, modern website. I started something like that in https://mahrud.github.io/LearnM2, but if you intend to just dump all the old stuff here, that makes me, and I'd bet others, much less motivated to help improve it.

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Certainly no one learns the Macaulay2 language by looking at the web site, so how "pretty" it is is irrelevant. The way one learns the Macaulay2 language is by installing Macaulay2, trying it out, and reading the documentation, which is included with the installation.

I hope no one wastes time making a "pretty" web site.

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mahrud commented Mar 13, 2021

Have you considered the possiblity that you may be out of touch? I wish you would try to listen to people when they tell you about their experience rather than outright dismissing it.

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