Re: test event calendar please

On Thu Jul 12 13:37:04 2001 Jim Winstead wrote: > > [1] I'd still like to see www.php.net default to a map of the world or > > something where you then select the closest mirror. This would be > > especially useful if all mirror sites provide the same functionality (via > > MySQL replication). > > finding ways to encourage more people to use the mirrors would be a > good thing, i think. making www.php.net simply be a site that bounces > people to other mirrors is an interesting idea. Maybe doing that thing that the downloads page did at one time that shows the closest place to download php from and redirect them to that mirror site. Also maybe keep and array of which servers have enabled the MySQL mirrors would be an idea. > > we should probably boost the recognition of mirrors a bit, too. what > about moving the 'mirror provided by' stuff to the top of the page > instead of the (rather useless, imho) current date? > > i think cutting out the mirror selection dropdown (and just providing > a more prominent link to the mirrors page) would make sense, too. > right now that dropdown adds 5k of extra weight on every page that i > suspect rarely gets used. I suspect that it does get used due to the amount of hits that my php.net mirror gets. I think that people tend to use the "main" mirror more because of the fact the manual notes are there? Regards --jm > > jim