I find the site an absolute pain to use and every major change Mozilla has made over the past few years has made it worse.
To me, the site is badly structured, badly laid out and as slow as hell. I constantly feel like I'm fighting against it.
Much of the blame lies with the wiki software, which is confusing, cluttered and likely prevents any community from springing up around the site.
If I were Mozilla, I would rename it something like 'Web Doc Wiki' and move it over to stock MediaWiki installation. It might not be flashy but people are familiar with MediaWiki and people more likely to contribute to a site that looks like a wiki.
In short: We're in the process of basically rewriting the wiki software from scratch, right now [1]. There are a lot of growing pains. MediaWiki won't cut it.
Pull requests welcome!
If only they used plain HTTP instead of HTTPS...
Connecting: 0.837 s
SSL: 0.258 s
Sending: 0 s
Waiting: 0.767 s
Receiving: 0.001 s
Xfer Size: 14.26 KB (gzip)
onload: 3.37 s (primed cache)
12.78 s (empty cache)
Blocking: 0 s
Sending: 0 s
Waiting: 0.204 s
Receiving: 0.037 s
Xfer Size: 23.94 KB (plain)
onload: 1.09 s (primed cache)
1.82 s (empty cache)
[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global...
We're rewriting the wiki basically from scratch [1]. There are problems and growing pains. Pull requests welcome!
Remember when anyone could do some calculations in Basic and assembler? Now you have to absorb loads of "expert" knowledge to do anything interesting.