Open dessalines opened 2 years ago
How do people up to new create accounts?
Rather thas an App based server selection and signup process would it be better to send the user to https://join-lemmy.org/ to review server characteristcs and select a server to signup on?
Would the user journey from the App be?
Add account
Add existing account OR Create account
I Know the server I want to join OR Select a server
I know the server sends user to https://selectedserver/signup , Select a server sends users to https://join-lemmy.org/?showJoinModal=true
Just look at how lemmy-ui's signup screen looks. I'd see it as:
Just look at how lemmy-ui's signup screen looks. I'd see it as:
* By default, show the login screen, but have a button at the bottom for create an account. * Have a link to https://join-lemmy.org/?showJoinModal=true to help them pick. * Have a dropdown just like the login one * After a server is selected, load its signup form. * Let them sign up.
Yeah .. its three options 1) Login 2) Choose which server to create an account on 3) Create an account on a selected server - I think in that order
There is a subsquent step after 2) and 3) where after creating an account they need to come back and login - I guess that's something that needs to be handled by the success page of the Server signup form - allowing the user to Login using Jerboa or other App
I imagined a bit more informative, when selecting an instance. It will show quite some information about it.
Then you can select continue and sign up process
If that information is availabe its all included in the Join-lemmy interface and ultimately to create an account you need to land on the servers's signup page so using the existing interface makes sense to me. Its just a case of getting people to either a selected server or join-lemmy site.
One thing we can't really do (unless we pull and convert instance definitions from the join-lemmy repo), is help people pick an instance.
Agree that is their decision when they head over to Join-lemmy (which I think its redundant to include in the app itself since its only a transit point to the server subscribe page). - I'm interested in what the success page of the server subscribe page looks like. I need to get the skills to spin up a test lemmy server to figure that out.