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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:

Edit: Here is a draft for some changes to the frontpage: https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/pull/524

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[โ€“] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The term Link Aggregator has got to go. Call it a forum and call it a day

Its not the same, as forums dont use scores and have less focus on external links. The text already mentions forums, by removing link aggregator it would also be too short here.

I don't think link aggregator is a good term at all. If I said that to my mom she would never imagine anything like Reddit, she'd probably think of Google instead. Forum would be much better. "Discussion forum" would fix the issue with it being too short.

Or even "forum with voting and comment trees" lol IDK, I feel like anything is better than "link aggregator".

[โ€“] nutomic@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

Makes sense, I created a separate post about this: https://lemmy.ml/post/41767599