It used to be a banner above the comments. Now it seems to be in the sidebar. That’s a good design choice. It’s an improvement. It might not have scared my friend so much.
Now they have the notification in the sidebar instead of under the comments. Following https://feddit.de/comment/2020091, the sidebar says:
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !asklemmy@lemmy.ml
This is actually a massive improvement. It gives directions, and the earlier one didn’t. It’s friendlier than the earlier version too.
However, this evolution badly needs to continue (since I don’t see how asklemmy’s front page is going to tell you anything about the federated instance signup process or the fact that the user needs to return to their home instance in order to interact with the content.) If I was given a link to your comment, and I wanted to upvote your comment, I would still need to 1) navigate to my home instance’s search tool and 2) paste your comment’s URL into that search tool. And that’s still a complicated process for a lot of people.
I do really appreciate the direction the web app is going here, and the fact that they have gotten rid of the “vote” buttons and the “reply” buttons entirely now for any users not logged in, and the fact that the “not logged in” notification now tutorializes a little bit.
These are all very good developments.
But they need to continue. We need a stronger tutorial.
It used to be a banner above the comments. Now it seems to be in the sidebar. That’s a good design choice. It’s an improvement. It might not have scared my friend so much.
Here’s the earlier version I’ve thrown onto some image pastebin called “pasteboard”. The screen my friend sent me once he got scared off.
Now they have the notification in the sidebar instead of under the comments. Following https://feddit.de/comment/2020091, the sidebar says:
This is actually a massive improvement. It gives directions, and the earlier one didn’t. It’s friendlier than the earlier version too.
However, this evolution badly needs to continue (since I don’t see how asklemmy’s front page is going to tell you anything about the federated instance signup process or the fact that the user needs to return to their home instance in order to interact with the content.) If I was given a link to your comment, and I wanted to upvote your comment, I would still need to 1) navigate to my home instance’s search tool and 2) paste your comment’s URL into that search tool. And that’s still a complicated process for a lot of people.
I do really appreciate the direction the web app is going here, and the fact that they have gotten rid of the “vote” buttons and the “reply” buttons entirely now for any users not logged in, and the fact that the “not logged in” notification now tutorializes a little bit.
These are all very good developments.
But they need to continue. We need a stronger tutorial.