https://surge-synthesizer.github.io/ says "Download for null"

[yurivict]

What does this mean?

I think it meant to say "Download for FreeBSD" and link to https://www.freshports.org/audio/surge-synthesizer-xt-lv2/

OS: FreeBSD 13.1

[mthierman]

Well, looks like we check for the following platforms:

      platform = window.navigator.platform,
      macosPlatforms = ["Macintosh", "MacIntel", "MacPPC", "Mac68K"],
      windowsPlatforms = ["Win32", "Win64", "Windows", "WinCE"],
      iosPlatforms = ["iPhone", "iPad", "iPod"],
      os = null;

so null = anything not the above. Not sure what our policy is about linking unofficial builds but could add if the team is OK with that and if we are able to detect with window.navigator.

We should at least do something better than null.

[yurivict]

FYI: window.navigator.platform on FreeBSD evaluates to FreeBSD amd64.

[mthierman]

Cool, thanks for checking! I have no problem adding other platforms with unofficial links, what does the team think? I'm sure everyone using these systems know it's unofficial but we could add a note as well.

Null is not a good experience regardless.

[mkruselj]

Website related issues should go here, first and foremost. Please reopen this issue there, for consideration. Thanks!

At any rate, the intention behind that download button was not to link to external sites with unofficial downloads that are managed by a 3rd party outside of Surge Synth Team.

[haenkel]

@mthierman you can link here:
https://github.com/surge-synthesizer/surge-synthesizer.github.io/wiki/Linux-and-other-unix-like-distributions#surge-on-freebsd
and replace the (outdated) wiki part with:

## Surge on FreeBSD

The FreeBSD port is available at: https://www.freshports.org/audio/surge-synthesizer-xt-lv2/

Users can install it with the command: <br/>
`pkg install surge-synthesizer-xt-lv2` (using a binary package) <br/>
`cd /usr/ports/audio/surge-synthesizer-xt-lv2 && make install clean`
(build and install from source)