Update home page

[twiecki]

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[OriolAbril]

I would keep user guide instead of learning as I feel it is more descriptive of the content inside it. There aren't only the links to books and videos but also the installation instructions, it has the glossary, it has the notebooks on core features, the guides we kept from pymc-devs/pymc#5538 should also appear there. I don't think removing those would be a good idea, and having them inside the "learning" navbar item feels a bit confusing. I think the options we have on this moving forward are:

• Make "learning" a page inside the "user guide" navbar item
• Have both "user guide" with all the pages mentioned above and "learning" as single page navbar section (similar to the v3 books+videos one) both appear on the navbar
• (not sure it is a good idea) keep "learning" only in the navbar and find a different place for all the pages I mentioned above.

Side note, we can also add cards for the core notebooks to the example gallery page manually, I can do that once I have time.

Side note 2, the installaiton instructions page in https://www.pymc.io/projects/docs/en/latest/installation.html is there for now as a placeholder but should have the actual installation instructions instead of they being on the wiki. We discussed this a lot during GSoD and the wiki is very hard to find especially for new users who are the ones that need it the most, it also prevents us from having a "single link installation page" we can share and was probably one of the reasons we ended up (before GSoD) with at least 3 different installation instructions all on official docs yet incompatible between them.

[twiecki]

@OriolAbril Ohh, https://www.pymc.io/projects/docs/en/latest/learning.html has the links on the left-side, I didn't catch that and was just confused by the main text.

Hm, I wonder if I'm confused whether others will be too, but I do like the content. Maybe the text on the main site was confusing to me and then I couldn't process what was happening on the left side.

[OriolAbril]

first quick change, will continue reviewing

[OriolAbril]

messed up in previous review, thought I was reviewing on pymc, not pymc.io

[OriolAbril]

I personally don't like the logo here very much, but happy to do whatever most people prefer

[twiecki]

For me something is missing if it's not there and I try to scroll up. Probably because it's so ubiquitous for other projects to have the logo on the main page. It's also informative as it directly tells me that this is the landing page.

[OriolAbril]

I would keep this, and also add more content on the homepage as proposed here: #14 (comment). Not very opinionated on this being on the homepage, but I think all activities in addition to maintaining pymc should be showcased somewhere around here

[twiecki]

I think the purpose is to show that we're doing more than Just PyMC. But then the activities listed are all very much in support of PyMC. For me it's a bit as if Pandas would say "we also write the Pandas documentation". It's not really surprising and thus has low information density.

And most of these are already on the page elsewhere. Office hours are in the announcements, the example gallery is in the navbar, PyMCon when it's relevant would show up in the announcements.

I do think some of these links would be useful to have here, but I think a user cares less about what we do and rather how he or she can actually accomplish whatever they came to the site for. So what if we replaced this with a: "Get Started" with links to:

• Installation instructions
• Beginner User Guide
• Example Gallery
• Discourse

[twiecki]

I also added some of these pointers now to the "what sets us apart section" under a new "Community" item.