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Suggestion: Onboarding/Welcome and Lemmy 101 (self.wefwef)

submitted 1 year ago by ceuk to c/wefwef

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WefWef currently seems to be one of the most-commonly recommended apps for new users. For a lot of the refugees currently migrating from the Reddit 3rd party apps that got shutdown yesterday, this will be their first experience of Lemmy/The Fediverse.

As such, I think it'd be a really great idea to have a little new user experience that explains some basic concepts e.g

Basic app usage
What is Lemmy?
What is an instance?
Does it matter what instance I pick?
How do you create an account?
Discovering/Subscribing to communities

We don't want to scare off by being too complex so presentation is everything. The key thing is giving people just enough info to help them get set up with an account and subscribed to some interesting communities (and ideally with a very basic understanding of instances)

What do people think?

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[–] Guster 7 points 1 year ago

Coming from Reddit and testing many different apps before settlning for WefWef I have to say this is miles ahead of anything else

[–] lordcommander 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This app is significantly better than the Reddit app. I’m sure with time it could become as good as Apollo was (RIP, thanks Christian).

[–] Maruki_Hurakami 5 points 1 year ago

It's def already better than the official Reddit app for sure!

[–] xylogx 3 points 1 year ago

The biggest confusion I had was installing wefwef. I kept looking in the app store. Finally someone mentioned it was a PWA (Progressive Web App) and to go to wefwef.app and then it was super easy.