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Inconsistency of Download and Install Button on index page #37

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lebensterben opened this issue Jan 8, 2022 · 2 comments
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Inconsistency of Download and Install Button on index page #37

lebensterben opened this issue Jan 8, 2022 · 2 comments

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@lebensterben
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The download button always gets you https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/archive/master.zip,
even when users are visting https://develop.spacemacs.org/


The install button currently shows you

git clone https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs ~/.emacs.d

This results in users pulling the develop branch even when they are visiting https://www.spacemacs.org/

@yhager
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yhager commented Jun 8, 2022

I'd like to add that this is really confusing, and my first experience with spacemacs is not that great because of that. I chose the install option. magit doesn't work there - I searched everywhere - github, magit, reddit.. nothing. Until I went to gitter and someone told me I must be using the master branch, which is unmaintained and I should use the develop which is stable. It ends up as a very confusing user experience. Maybe fix the install button to point to the develop archive link?

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@choffee
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choffee commented Mar 30, 2023

Would it make sense at this point just redirecting www.spacemacs.org to develop.spacemacs.org for the website? or just making www point at the develop version?

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