Open bnvk opened 8 years ago
aaronpk
commented
8 years ago I would love to see it made even simpler.
Notice that everything under "Level 3" is just a wall of text, not even any tools. I suspect that's part of what's confusing people.
You can also link out to other tools like https://webmention.rocks and https://micropub.rocks to send the more technical people to those specific tools once they're ready to dive in.
Zegnat
commented
8 years ago It might also not help that IndieWebify.Me is the first thing on “Getting Started”. And the first thing most of us will point at.
You can also link out to other tools like https://webmention.rocks and https://micropub.rocks to send the more technical people to those specific tools once they're ready to dive in.
Some confusion about Webmention.rocks came up in Berlin as well. After installing a Webmention plugin for WordPress someone (sorry for forgetting names!) wanted to see if it was working. They went to Webmention.rocks for their testing and were confused about what to do with the links.
It looks like we need to make a difference between implementor tests and user tests. (There was a lot of discussion about users.) As an implementor I want detailed separate tests. As a user I just want to enter my domain somewhere and be done with it.
A good example of the latter is Google’s MX record checker. The page only has the single input box: https://toolbox.googleapps.com/apps/checkmx/.
When I had the idea & registered the domain name for indiewebify.me the idea was to make an easy tool to achieve the following:
It seems I picked a domain name that's too user friendly, as those above goals assume a certain technical baseline. At the Berlin camp multiple people who are non-technical and wanting to "get on the IndieWeb" seemed confused by IndieWebifyMe.
I suggest we had a small header and links that explain this and offer links to Getting Started or something slightly more user friendly that even.