Rework the main page to be more digestable, transparent and less repelling to sceptical people

[STeeL835]

I support the movement, but I want to point out a big (imo) problem with it: while the open letter is good and adequate, the main page is not

It is difficult for details

The website doesn't really do a good job of explaining things to a regular person. What exactly is happening, how it works, how exactly it affects people, and what it means for them. It only has a list of blogposts at the bottom of the page, barely anyone will open them.

You, the consumer, purchased your Android device believing in Google’s promise that it was an open computing platform

No, most people buy things because they like the device, the camera, that it folds, and how much does it last. Most of them NEVER install anything that is not on play store, they do not understand what the fuss is about. They can't imagine a situation they put themselves in until they get into it.

It is not transparent

Sure, it does have some information, but it has a total of 3 links explaining the context, while there are more phrases that could have proof links for those who want to know (for example how did you know the entire flow is delivered through Google Play Services).

It does not acknowledge the good motives. The fact is - there are people who agree that underpowered users should be taken certain freedom away because they can't or don't want to know how to use it. (aka protect them). You can explain how exactly it can be used for worse, how same things were used for worse, or how it's not the best solution, but i think you have to acknowledge all effects to appear rational.

The short about Advanced Flow says they will add it before enforcing, but website says.

The community is being asked to accept a product announcement as a functional safeguard five months before the mandate takes effect

Also the background section could become yellow since status quo changed to having it (though it's still to be reviewed)

It is emotional

In a world where social media makes everything a sensation, the world is on fire, social platforms feed everything that makes us engage, to a point of desensitization, the website is looking almost comical. It calls a prompt "are you being coached" a scare screen while having a doomsday timer on top. Red banners, big letters, emotional phrasing. Lack of context details, makes it more emotional than trust-inducing.

While some people can respond to emotion and sign it while not understanding the message fully, the others will only be repelled by exact same thing. The only people who will sign knowingly - the ones who already know, the power users.

and because of all that..

It is made fun of

I've seen a social media post that tried to bring people attention to this problem, but most of the comments were "oh boo hoo, the doomsday timer, the red letters, another psycho trying to get attention", "so? Guess what, we had to pay for Google play developers console since forever", "aw, it's going to have a turn off switch like GPP". It's in russian, but you can see the "💅" emojis in comments.

I wrote a different post (warning, it's in russian too) explaining what's going on, what's the problem exactly and how it will affect the regular person, with proof links (spent whole day on it), and got less toxic and more supportive feedback.

What I propose

• Think of better structure for the content
  • the summary of a problem
  • the problem laid out
  • the consequences laid out in easy to digest way
• Think of a better website layout
  • smaller font
  • doomsday clock less sinister
  • tabs with information for certain roles (consumers, developers, state)
  • faq section
  • history of update announcements
• less emotions (no need to remove emotion completely, but use it sparingly) and more rationality
• language-related references