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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
I think the main problem is the green color chosen for the website. It gives a "matrix" vibe and makes people think it's for hackers and stuff like that. It's okay to have green accents but I think most of the color should be replaced by something else. White color should be more permanent.
Also I noticed that the performance on firefox Android is pretty poor.
Thanks for your feedback! I made the theme colors a bit darker, what do you think? https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/pull/597
Now that you mention it, I also notice the problem with scroll performance, hard to say what might cause it.
It looks alright but it's not what I meant. Green, should not be the main color imo. It makes Lemmy look too hackery and "not for the masses". Mastodon has a good onboarding website imo. Again, that's my opinion so I could be wrong. You're doing great job anyway!
Im not a designer, so for me its very difficult to make such changes. I prefer making a small adjustment rather than messing the whole thing up.
Something has been preventing all the servers and users from showing up on join-lemmy.org for the last couple days. I sent Des a DM about it yesterday before I realized you were the one managing it. ๐
Thanks for letting me know! I made a fix, it should be deployed within half an hour.
Great to hear! Thanks for all the time and effort that goes into supporting this platform.
No problem, this is my job after all. And I got lucky to end up with a job like this :)
Alright, that's understandable