borgbackup.org - new design!

[ThomasWaldmann]

The old site did its job, but it was a bit boring - unlike the Borg!

Now a new borg themed site design is live, but still a bit hidden:

https://www.borgbackup.org/index2.html

You can click on the Stop button if the movement is too much for you or your laptop's GPU or battery.

If you review the design and content, please put constructive feedback below.

Compatibility: tried it with Firefox, Chrome and Safari - worked for me. The background stuff uses WebGL, so that won't work with links/lynx/w3m, but guess you can still read the content.

Accessibility: some tests were done, some fixes were made. Somebody could do more tests, try it with a screenreader.

[fooness]

That looks very clean and polished. I’ve not much constructive feedback to give (which is a net positive), the thing I immediately thought of is the amount and brightness of things happening on screen; maybe it would possible to tone down the brightness/lightness/hue of the animated blocks down a little, so they don’t have the same brightness as the scrollable content and blend a little more into the background.

[ThomasWaldmann]

Yeah, guess the small cubes could be a bit less bright.

[ThomasWaldmann]

3rd party feedback, keeping it here:

• font size top navigation too small
• to little contrast between big cube and text in front of it
• maybe change "stop" button into a "start" button? some people don't realize there is a stop button or that it would stop the animation

[fooness]

Maybe the “start” or “stop” button should include the word “animation” or something like that; to make it clear what is being started/stopped. It would also be great if the website would respect the “reduce motions” settings of operating systems (or desktop environments) and, if enabled, have the animations stopped by default.