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This doesn't bother me as much — FOSS projects don't need a rockstar designer for their website, do they?

Unless a "designer" "developed" the website for them and they got blindsided, which I'm sure happens more than I care to understand. I've seen it happen at well-funded companies — employees claiming they designed something, management had no idea they didn't really do much work at all, etc.

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Of course you don't have to reinvent the wheel. I just wanted others to know if they like the design. And maybe they should change the default picture above "following".

BTW I think they did quite well. I especially like the "live activity" box at the footer that shows recent changes.

They never needed much of a designer anyway, since if you look at the old site, which I think worked perfectly well, it was generated by "RosCMS". That was their own, GPL licensed, CMS.

Replacing that with a commercial template doesn't seem very FOSS to me.

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