> This redesign appears to take the position: the first page on haskell.org is for people who are brand new to the language, not for people who are already learning the language or currently use the language.
> To me, a user of the language visits the site dozens or hundreds of times over the course of a career, while the average brand new user only visits it (I'm guessing here) 1.1 times.
In practice this isn't true—it's generally agreed in the Haskell community: nobody goes to the home page, they go to either Hackage, Hoogle or google something and reach a page on the Wiki.
Correct! See here for a complete report on the motivations behind each design decision: http://chrisdone.com/posts/haskell-lang#the-audience
> To me, a user of the language visits the site dozens or hundreds of times over the course of a career, while the average brand new user only visits it (I'm guessing here) 1.1 times.
In practice this isn't true—it's generally agreed in the Haskell community: nobody goes to the home page, they go to either Hackage, Hoogle or google something and reach a page on the Wiki.