The website needs some work. I could gather they were a fork of Debian, but I couldn't find the benefits. I had to come to the HN comments to learn about the systemd controversy. Less important, the mobile experience was not good on Android Chrome. When scrolling, the logo visibility toggles and the page content jumps.
> Devuan is about choice. We think people should be able
> to choose whether to use a GNU+Linux system with or
> without systemd.
> Devuan decided to fork not only the base distribution,
> but also its governance, because Debian has made it
> difficult to avoid systemd as init, entangling the system
> with unnecessary dependencies and did so despite...
but you're right that it makes sense to put it in a more obvious location, given that it seems to be the reason the project exists.