Dear Developers,
This is an interesting brand confusion issue that I want to bring up. Users who visit the Inkscape website exhibit sometimes some key confusions which I'm not entirely sure how to fix:
1. That Inkscape requires them to register for an account in order to download. This is not true, but users have been trained by proprietary service vendors to register accounts for everything to get access. Help requests from users who forget their password or can't activate their accounts indicate that they only wanted to download Inkscape.
2. That the gallery on the website /is inkscape/, this is a much rarer problem. But sometimes people upload things to the Inkscape gallery in order to somehow get the website to perform actions or 'use' Inkscape via a web interface. This is likely because many users are trained to think of apps as websites and the website offers some abilities which could be confused for entry points into Inkscape functionality. This presents as moderation flags, usually people uploading photos and asking why Inkscape can't be accessed.
These are issues that may get worse as more and more people get computers which are not-desktops. Phones, tables, whatever chromebooks are. And I can imagine there might be some simple changes to help direct people more.
Thoughts?
Best Regards, Martin Owens