[OpenFontLibrary] Oflb.org

[Peter Baker]

The message I saw earlier today--and it's still there now--was

This domain is for sale.

Please contact domains at zou.info

I'll chip in if it's not too expensive.

Peter


On Thursday, June 10, 2010, Liam R E Quin <liam at holoweb.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 15:59 +0100, Dave Crossland wrote:
>
>> I have oflb.org and I redirect it to openfontlibrary.org.
>>
>> We could do the opposite of this, to reduce confusion with
>> openfontlibrary.{net,com}
>
> No. You'll be in the same situation, oflb.com is registered to
> someone in San Francisco... Unless you can buy it.
>
> Having said that...
>
> Number one priority seems to me to get a working Web site,
> with previews for all the fonts.
>
> The new site is looking massively better in this regard, except that
> right now it fails the 3-second test -- i.e. you can't guess
> what it's about in 3 seconds from looking at the Web page without
> scrolling.
>
> It's worth adding the .org to the "open font library"
> branding at top left, and that's probably more urgent than e.g.
> fixing [[ SyntaxError: Badly formed JSON string: '' ]] on /files,
> or completing the missing previews. Afterwards there'll be time
> to clean up all that javascript a little too ;-)
>
> But the branding needs to be there right now. Seems to me the
> ".org" is more important than any other part. Although now
> that it has been mentioned, olfb.{org,net,com} should be
> registered.
>
> Best,
>
> Liam
>
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