[QGIS-Developer] Downloads and random languages

Colin Sare-Soar colin.saresoar at terrashape.co.uk
Sat Sep 23 15:52:26 PDT 2023 

I suspect that this is not particularly QGis related. Are you using a VPN? I get this often on various sites. It seems to be the browser that makes this decision, despite me setting everything to English.

As for the speed, well that is always variable. I use certain apps that sometimes require heavy downloads like Qt and X-Plane and I also have quite a fast internet connection. I usually end up either choosing a different VPN server or disabling it temporarily.
Colin


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> I believe this reports from users are because of some problem with servers or website lately.
> I also encountered several times lately very very slow download rates even though I have high bandwidth, optical internet connection (see my speedtest result: Speedtest by Ookla - The Global Broadband Speed Test).
> 
> The solution for me was to start download again, but I can easily imagine that users thought that they need to donate to get better download speeds. From my testing, I got best download speeds from Norbit server.
> 
> One other thing that I noticed lately is that main page (qgis.org) opens a random language version of website. There is no translation to Croatian so I expect to get English version, but I get randomly other languages - just tested it this moment, and I got Italian version - "https://qgis.org/it/site/", but lately I've often experienced Hungarian version a lot, and once or twice, I got a Greek version, although I always enter "qgis.org" in the address bar.
> 
> Maybe this weird redirection to another language is related to slow download speeds.
> 
> 
> čet, 21. ruj 2023. u 16:35 DelazJ via QGIS-Developer <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> napisao je:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > At https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Website/pull/1184, I made a pull request to update the "Thank you" text based on Nick's suggestion (basically, put download info in bold and split whole text in many paragraphs). I do not feel really comfortable with mentioning support (companies) there, or do I not find the right formulation...
> > Whoever feels interested in fixing that part of the issue, the source files are accessible generally from the "fix me" URL at the bottom of the page or under https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Website/tree/master/themes/qgis-theme.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Harrissou
> > 
> > Le jeu. 21 sept. 2023 à 15:19, Bourdon, Jean-François (DIF) via QGIS-Developer <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> a écrit :
> > > [Intranet logo]
> > > 
> > > To continue on the topic of donation and support, although I find it strange that someone doing a donation is expecting at the same time to receive special support (donation != license), maybe a precision should be made on the donation page (https://donate.qgis.org/) like:
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > “Please note that making a donation doesn’t grant any additional support than what can be found at the support page (https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/support.html). For any specific need, you might contact one of the numerous companies offering commercial support (https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/commercial_support.html#qgis-commercial-support).”
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > Maybe this same text could be add to the section “What is your benefit supporting the QGIS Development?” for the Sustaining Membership Program.
> > > 
> > >  
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> > >  
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> > >  
> > > 
> > > Jean-François Bourdon, ing.f.
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> > > 
> > > De : QGIS-Developer <qgis-developer-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> De la part de Emma Hain via QGIS-Developer
> > > Envoyé : 20 septembre 2023 20:57
> > > À : Nick Bearman <nick at geospatialtrainingsolutions.co.uk>
> > > Cc : qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
> > > Objet : Re: [QGIS-Developer] Download troubles? Download in the background?
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > I think this looks good Nick, could we also put in a link to the QGIS hub page and to where our links to the users groups are so that sorta provides some 'support'. 
> > > 
> > > Sorta off topic:
> > > 
> > > I recently got contacted by someone letting me know they donated so they could get support - they thought I was the help desk for QGIS...Maybe this is an indication of some UX/UI is required to send people to our support pages???
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > Cheers
> > > 
> > > Em
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > On Thu, 21 Sept 2023 at 01:07, Nick Bearman via QGIS-Developer <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks for highlighting this Andreas.
> > > > 
> > > > If I might suggest a tweak to the popup layout:
> > > > 
> > > > Thank you!
> > > > 
> > > > Your freshly baked copy of QGIS is downloading. (Make this line bold and add a paragraph before the next bit)
> > > > 
> > > > QGIS is free of charge, and will always be free of charge if downloaded from QGIS.org. (and another break here)
> > > > 
> > > > If you can afford to support the project and people making this software, please consider making a small donation to support our efforts. Whether you choose to donate or not, we hope that you enjoy using our labour of love and encourage you to share and spread your downloaded copy far and wide so that others may enjoy it too. Our very best regards!
> > > > 
> > > > The QGIS Team
> > > > 
> > > > This might make it a bit more obvious. What do you think?
> > > > 
> > > > (I will leave those who are more technical than me to discuss download speed issues).
> > > > 
> > > > Best wishes,
> > > > Nick.
> > > > 
> > > > On 9/20/23 08:19, Johannes Kröger (WhereGroup) via QGIS-Developer wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Hi Andreas,
> > > > > 
> > > > > ouch!
> > > > > 
> > > > > Javascript is not required for the download. If it is disabled, all OS options are expanded and the big green buttons directly point to the files anyways. The "donate" popup is only triggered in addition to the normal link click (if javascript is enabled).
> > > > > 
> > > > > If the users really just not realise that a download has started, maybe making the text that says that QGIS is being downloaded bold on the "donate" popup might help? The popup might just be too intrusive and distracting even.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Some sites use images to point their users towards the browser's download manager, maybe there is a freely available library that does this for all kinds of browsers and screens?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Downloads are often painfully slow though and might even time out in bad cases I guess. Having some more/faster download mirrors might help. The osgeo.org mirror is often unusable (I think it is that mirror that most often causes issues, norbit.de usually seems fine for me - from Germany though...). Here is one story of a user in South Korea: https://fosstodon.org/@ianthetechie/110943928875054838
> > > > > 
> > > > > Maybe users see super slow or failing downloads and think that it is a matter of donation.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I am aware of download.osgeo.org and norbit.de mirrors, are there more? It would probably be a good idea to have one in Asia and maybe one in Africa, depending on the routing. At least for Asia OVH has cheap offers that might just be good enough.
> > > > > 
> > > > > PS, if a CDN (probably overkill) would be considered: I am strongly against using Cloudflare as they are a global surveillance opportunity for the US and we would all be stupid not to assume that any traffic going through them is logged by three letter agencies. We should not participate in that kind of centralisation. There are alternatives like https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/cloudflare . I would happily research a good choice.
> > > > > 
> > > > >  
> > > > > 
> > > > > Could you try to find out more details about why they get so confused?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Cheers, Hannes
> > > > > 
> > > > >  
> > > > > 
> > > > > Am 20.09.23 um 08:50 schrieb Andreas Neumann via QGIS-Developer:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Hi all,
> > > > > > 
> > > > > >  
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Recently (past 1-4 months) I get a lot of emails at finance at qgis.org from people who say that they donated but then could not download QGIS. I think I got at least 40-50 such emails until now.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > >  
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Sometimes they ask: how many times do I have to donate until I can download QGIS?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > >  
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I then explain them that donations are optional, often direct them to the direct download page - and I tell them that downloads may take longer.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > >  
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I believe that many users aren't aware that QGIS is downloading "in the background". Because the QGIS downloads are rather large this can take several minutes ...
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Or may there be other problems with downloads? Does it require Javascript to be enabled?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > >  
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I wonder if we can display some hint that QGIS is downloaded "in the background" and can take a while to download ....
> > > > > > 
> > > > > >  
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I believe this is because many users don't know how their browsers work with the downloads of large files ...
> > > > > > 
> > > > > >  
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Is there anything we can do to inform users and enhance the download experience - so that I don't get that many emails?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > >  
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Thank you for your replies,
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Andreas
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