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

  • Aria@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    6 days ago

    On the internet imperialist English has been considered the default language. The join-Lemmy page is English to begin with.

    I disagree with this. Anything to encourage other language use is good. And for me it builds confidence to see the selection. Both because I think the community is large enough to exist in other languages and because it signals the developer’s priorities. If there were good options in my preferred languages I would absolutely have joined a non-English instance instead. That’s not going to exist if the UI buries the option.