Website badly needs an update

[guillerodriguez]

The website (the one currently linked from GH -- http://robovm.mobidevelop.com/) is badly outdated:

• It has broken links (e.g. to the Idea snapshot build)
• It has obsolete links (e.g. Eclipse update site points to 2.3.6 release)
• It mentions that "iOS 11 and XCode 9" are "mostly supported"

I know a new website is in the works but until that one is finished, it would be nice to fix the above issues in the currently linked website. Unfortunately I cannot send a PR for this because the sources for that website are not in GH (as far as I know).

The main Wiki page in the repo is also outdated -- it still says "iOS 12 and XCode 10 are fully supported."

[dkimitsa]

there is bright and shiny https://mobivm.github.io we just need to update readme.md and probably wiki

[dkimitsa]

@guillerodriguez and here are sources https://github.com/MobiVM/mobivm.github.io

[guillerodriguez]

Yes I know, but it is invisible in practice for most users since it is not linked anywhere.

[daluu]

Perhaps http://robovm.mobidevelop.com/ should simply be configured to point to https://mobivm.github.io/. That should solve the problem and have a single source of truth that's community contributable/maintainable.

[dkimitsa]

There is some amount of old docs copied from original robovm.com that is good idea to save.

[guillerodriguez]

Revisiting this issue.

The bright and shiny new site was implemented during April/May 2021. However http://robovm.mobidevelop.com/ still shows the old, outdated site. I would not be surprised if new users arriving at http://robovm.mobidevelop.com/ think that RoboVM is abandonware ("iOS 11 and XCode 9 are mostly supported" !!)

Isn't the new site already in a much better shape than the old one? Wouldn't it be a good idea to deploy it?

[MobiDevelop]

Happy to update DNS to point to the fancy new site

[ollyde]

@guillerodriguez it's linked here, first thing on the Github page.

[guillerodriguez]

@guillerodriguez it's linked here, first thing on the Github page.

That is the old site.

Which very nicely shows my point: the new site is basically invisible.

[ollyde]

@guillerodriguez indeed; the docs are a bit impossible to be honest; trying to migrate a project from 2013; Apple forcing us; project still makes money 😂

[Adelrisk]

Even larger and more present is this area, which I just discovered was leading me astray:

That link is even more prominent in my eyes.

[keesvandieren]

Hi, can a maintainer just update the GitHub project to point to the new website? Maybe @Tom-Ski can? I know it takes a few minutes, but I believe it really helps our users.

[dkimitsa]

@keesvandieren hi, will create a PR later today, there are few places/texts to be updated

[dkimitsa]

seems like all links are updated