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Consider removing Download button from istio.io landing page #4962

Closed rvennam closed 5 years ago

rvennam commented 5 years ago

Currently, we have 3 main action buttons:

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The Download button takes users to https://github.com/istio/istio/releases/tag/1.2.5

Users who are looking to install Istio can click on this page, be taken to the artifacts in the github releases page, download them and then not know what to do next. I've witnessed users do this.

We don't want most of our users to go down this path. We want them to click on the Get Started button instead, where they will be guided to download Istio using the curl script as part of their getting started experience.

I suggest removing the Download link from the center of the home page to streamline the experience.

geeknoid commented 5 years ago

Note that there is also a download button in the footer of every page on the site, which takes you to the same releases page. Should this stay or go?

geeknoid commented 5 years ago

Some alternatives to removing the button:

frankbu commented 5 years ago

Leave the button as "Download 1.2.5" and send users to https://preliminary.istio.io/docs/setup/#downloading-the-release

I was thinking something like this, combined with moving the downloading-the-release section to a doc of its own. Let me play with this a little and send a PR that we can discuss further.

rvennam commented 5 years ago

I think the Download button on the release announcement blog should also take you to our Download page instead of GitHub.

https://preliminary.istio.io/blog/2019/announcing-1.3/