Add second download button for Beta version

Started by Crimson Wizard, Sat 15/10/2022 15:33:36

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Crimson Wizard

Since I've been doing some tech support for a while now, I noticed that many users cannot find "Beta" download easily.

If you go to the Downloads page, you will see the latest stable download as a big blue button. However the Beta version link is hidden under the "Other downloads and resources" below, where it's not marked in any special way but looks like another regular link under "AGS Work in Progress Releases", below several other links. I think this makes this link not easy to find, and require user to actually go investigating further without knowing what they may find at all.

In overall this page unfortunately presents a collection of links as a "wall of text" without having more important links to stand out.

My proposal is to redesign the page and how the editor downloads are presented.

For example, the latest stable download may be left as a button as-is, but then all the available recent editor versions could be presented in a table right below. Something like:
* Latest stable version | download installer | download zip | forum thread
* Upcoming beta version | download installer | download zip | forum thread
* Previous stable version | download installer | download zip | forum thread
* Nightly builds | a link to the currently active build server, which points to the active branch


EDIT: perhaps "previous stable version" is not really necessary there. Maybe instead it's better to have a separate table of older versions, including 3.2.1 and 2.72 etc.

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