[Help Design Lemmy] Joinlemmy website and New User Onboarding
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When people are told about Lemmy and look for it in a search engine, join-lemmy.org is one of the first pages that comes up. Here they should be able to find out what Lemmy is, and be able to register an account to start posting.
At the moment this still seems too complicated, so I'm looking for your suggestions to improve it:
- On the main page, is the text relevant and up to date or should anything be changed?
- How about the instance selection wizard (click "join a server" on the homepage), which lets you select topics and languages to select instances. Do the current options make sense?
- The instance list itself, is there any information missing, or potential design improvements?
- And the list of apps, what can be done here? For one thing the data is rarely updated, so we would appreciate pull requests.
- Any other suggestions you may have.
Since yesterday I already made a couple of improvements:
- Use biased random for instance list, so large instances are always near the top
- Rename Join to Sign Up in instance list
- Fix icon overflows by using inline-flex (by @dessalines)
- Add button to visit random instance (not merged yet)
Edit: Here is a draft for some changes to the frontpage:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/pull/524 -
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Drop the "Fediverse" verbiage, or even "federated".
You may be speaking to potential instance admins but only those familiar with AP know what federation means. Otherwise it's a term with no meaning.
Ironically, even "Lemmyverse" means more than "Fediverse", so "linked together through the Lemmyverse" actually works better.
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"Discuss interesting topics and join communities on the Fediverse."
IMO it's better than "link aggregator" because we don't only share links here, but also images and text.
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Build communities without the middle men.
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On join-lemmy.org, the project is described as "A forum and link aggregator for the Fediverse". In the previous post, multiple people mentioned that this is not a good description. However I have a hard time coming up with anything better.
So please post your suggestions below, and upvote the ones which are both accurate and easy to understand for new users. Later I pick one of the most upvoted options for the website.
By the way the second title "Follow communities Anywhere in the world" will likely go away (see the pull request for frontpage redesign). After this is decided I may also make another post to get suggestions for the longer description text below ("Lemmy is a selfhosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. ...").
Edit: Please only post concrete suggestions in top-level comments, and use replies to discuss. And here you can see how a few other Fediverse projects do it:
https://joinmastodon.org/ https://joinpeertube.org/ https://pixelfed.org/
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When people are told about Lemmy and look for it in a search engine, join-lemmy.org is one of the first pages that comes up. Here they should be able to find out what Lemmy is, and be able to register an account to start posting.
At the moment this still seems too complicated, so I'm looking for your suggestions to improve it:
On the main page, is the text relevant and up to date or should anything be changed? How about the instance selection wizard (click "join a server" on the homepage), which lets you select topics and languages to select instances. Do the current options make sense? The instance list itself, is there any information missing, or potential design improvements? And the list of apps, what can be done here? For one thing the data is rarely updated, so we would appreciate pull requests. Any other suggestions you may have.Since yesterday I already made a couple of improvements:
Use biased random for instance list, so large instances are always near the top Rename Join to Sign Up in instance list
Fix icon overflows by using inline-flex (by @dessalines) Add button to visit random instance (not merged yet)Edit: Here is a draft for some changes to the frontpage:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/pull/524
