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
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!