Is contributing to the endevouros.com open?

I tried to find the repository of the https://endeavouros.com/ website but I could not find it. Can I know is there any way to contribute to the website?

Thank you.

It is a wordpress site.

What are you wanting to contribute?

Thanks for the quick reply. I’m willing to rewrite the entire site with HUGO (my personal choice, can be changed). With matching to the 2026 UI/UX standards. And we can use md (markdown files) to write news and blog posts easily.

The link is broken/incorrect, please edit your post and fix it.

Thanks

We can export all news posts available to markdown using a plugin on wordpress. Or we can scrape them.

Changed.

Thanks for pointing out.

Hey! Welcome to the EOS forums! Genuinely curious, as to why you’d want to rewrite an entire website? :smiley: Usually when people join, it’s often with a “hi! I’m x, been using Linux for y years, love doing z, hoping to learn something and keep growing” etc. It’s unusual to have someone come in and ask if they can nuke and pave without any prior history or knowledge of who they are..

Settle in, tell us a little about yourself perhaps? It’s usually a good start.. :slight_smile:

Sorry about that! I’m a college student and have been using Linux for over 5 years. My journey started when I used Ubuntu to play Minecraft on an old Windows 7 laptop that couldn’t handle Windows 10. Since then, I’ve jumped into web development and spent time in communities like Linux Mint, Debian, and Fedora. I apologize for jumping straight to the point without introducing myself first!

I’ve been using EOS for about 6-7 months. Back then, I thought the UI looked a bit dated and tried to find the repository, but had no luck. I looked for it again today, still couldn’t find it, so I joined the forum to ask about contributing.

Since dalto explained it’s built on WordPress (which I don’t develop themes for), I suggested a Hugo rewrite because of its speed and excellent Markdown support for blog posts.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, and glad to be here!

Great stuff, always useful to build on your experience, college must be a world away from what it was in the 90’s, - dot matrix printers and unix command line shells only.. :wink: Good to have you with us, enjoy the journey!

As for redoing the website, it’s a great ambition, maybe a proof of concept to start with is always useful to have.. As for the UI, that’s always going to be subjective. Dated in what way? The real questions to ask are ; Is it accessible? Does it meet HCI guidelines? Are there clear issues that need to be addressed? :slight_smile:

Haha yeah it’s completely different from early 00s but I’ve still got to study about dot matrix printers, daisy wheels, impact/non-impact printer stuff.. :sweat_smile: I’m still learning number systems (binary, hexa, decimal stuff) :laughing:

Yeah agree with the POC so I made these so far. I need some support to write website page contents because I don’t know what to put or what to remove. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

The first 2 images are what I have done so far. I hope colors match to the distro logo color palette. The third image is a mobile prototype. Desktop and mobile versions don’t match because I made them 2 different times and my ideas changed. :melting_face: The second image looks pretty bad with text I had to put some dummy text because had no idea what to put. :slight_smile: The first one is the last design I made.

Just for everybody’s info, @zer0dusk and I are in contact about this via PM.

FWIW I think it’s nice how young almost everyone here is… I completed college in 1974 and wrote my first production software in 1975 (a budgetary package written in 128 WORDS of memory with punch paper tape overlays.)

Things are different now. :rofl: :old_man:

I am NOT young, I am proud Gen-Xer, born in 78, I consider myself quite o… wait you started programming when? Nvm, gotta go learn smt…

And then there is me, born in this century…

Also I just want to congratulate the community to being open to a new member wanting to rewrite an important piece of the overall project (yes it doesn’t touch the OS but is the outward representation of it). Most places would have instantly harshly dismissed such proposals, no matter how well-intentioned or skilled the individual making them is :purple_heart:

“Funny” thing is: That was actually my original reaction. I started typing something like “BUT COPYRIGHT”, and did NOT send it, because I thought “well, don’t judge here, don’t stop someone who wants to contribute” - this community tends to make the best of us all. That’s why I praise it so much. I am stubborn, foul-mouthed and quick-witted, normally. But this deserves better.

I’m shocked too! The last time I offered a documentation site redesign for a well-known JS library a few months ago, it went completely differently.

I wrote a full proposal, built a live responsive website by myself, and spent days finishing it. After a week or two, I just got a cold message saying they weren’t accepting website proposals at that time they didn’t even look at the redesign!

They had a major issue with showing sponsors on the site and were always placing them manually. I actually fixed that for them too by fully automating the process-fetching from OpenCollective and GitHub Sponsors, and ranking them by monthly funding size. I even redesigned their logo! I think you can all imagine how frustrating that felt at the time.

Anyway, I really want to thank @Bryanpwo for reaching out to me, even though I’m completely new to this community. I never thought the team and the users would be this incredibly kind. Thank you all so much for the warm welcome!

And @chriscomputing the thing you said is right, website may not be a part of the OS itself but website is the thing that represent the something to the outer internet world. and yeah most of places are harshly dismissing these kind of proposals, I don’t know why :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

And sorry for any grammar mistakes here, English isn’t my first language!

welcome zer0dusk

Use of AI

To my knowledge, the website doesn’t do any authentication or backend stuff as its mostly to provide information about the “product”. I am seeing hints of AI usage, but i don’t see any disclaimers of this.

To me, this is a red flag and a sign that it is vibecoded. But again, the site (of my knowledge) doesn’t do any authentication so there won’t be any vulnerabilities to abuse here.

Don’t get me wrong, it does look great! Best of luck if it does go through :blue_heart:

Wondering how you came to this conclusion, it looks pretty good to me and the wording doesn’t sound off like most LLM’s do

@zer0dusk is using Hugo. It generates styled, static pages from markdown, which are easily cached and lightweight in terms of server resources. Very efficient. No database and no server-side code for every request.

There is no direct back-end, but it is possible to create a pipeline where version controlled updates can be made, built and pushed to the live-site.