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
On the new UI i’m not sure what is the difference between “country” and “language” (btw “Country” isn’t translated in the french version, the translation would be “Pays”). What I can guess is that “country” is the country where the server are hosted, but I’m far from sure with the current wording (and I’m a technical person, most peoples would definitively not guess it). If that is the case, I would rename it with “hosted in” or something similar.
Concerning the language selection I also find it disturbing to not be able to select multiple language (in my case I speak both french and english, so I would want to select both but not “all language” as I don’t speak german for example). If you allow multiple language selection then instances speaking both language should be displayed before the ones where they speak only one of the language (I don’t know if instances with multiple language exists right now ? but we could imagine it in the future).
Good point, I renamed it to “hosted in” and also added a filter by continent ath the same time (https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/pull/567). Translations are contributed by people like you via Weblate, contributions welcome!
Multiple language selection would be both complicated to implement and also complicated to use. Not even joinmastodon.org has it. I would simply select the language which is less common, for French there is only a single instance.