[Help Design Lemmy] Joinlemmy website and New User Onboarding (lemmy.ml)

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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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[-] nutomic@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago

Possibly. Dumping everyone at lemmy.zip is a possibility too. lemmy.wtf is is a bit too on the nose.

I would avoid using instances without “lemmy” in the name like reddthat, it was very confusing to me when I started out.

That makes sense. I went through the list and found these as reasonable defaults: https://lemmy.zip/, https://lemmy.today/, https://thelemmy.club/, https://lemmus.org/

Then it would be one of the monthly tasks for @dessalines@lemmy.ml and me to go through this list and keep it updated.

The new front page looks much better and cleaner. Not sure about the “Apps” though, people need to create an account first so.

At least some of the apps let you register directly, though I dont have an overview of that. Would be good to contact the app devs about adding a registration option where it is missing. They might have the same doubts which instances to use as defaults.

Also I’d call it “Mobile Apps” instead, “Apps” is a bit vague.

It also includes web apps and desktop apps...

I still plead for removing both buttons and directly showing the “instance selector” in the middle area, with the “See all instances” showing in the top bar only. Maybe slightly more prominently than the other top bar icons

Which instance selector do you mean?

The definition used by Reddit currently is also possible

"News aggregator" and "Link aggregator" is very similar, either one works for me.

One of the buttons talks about “instances” and the other one about “servers in your new design”. Not sure what the difference there is

No difference, its just that "Instances" may not be clear to new users. Should definitely be made consistent before merging.

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