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For a website called JoinDiaspora, I'm surprised I can't find out how to join Diaspora from the homepage.
by deanclatworthy 8y ago
For a website called JoinDiaspora, I'm surprised I can't find out how to join Diaspora from the homepage.
- TimNN 8y agoIf you look at https://joindiaspora.com/statistics https://joindiaspora.com/statistics, you'll actually notice that "Registrations" are "Closed". I guess that means that this specific "pod" is full and you need to find a different "pod"?
- 51lver 8y agoYes that is correct, or start your own. Here is a tool to view info about pods: https://podupti.me/ https://podupti.me/ On theis diaspora wiki page, the GIANT sign up link will direct you to a random pod: https://wiki.diasporafoundation.org/Choosing_a_pod https://wiki.diasporafoundation.org/Choosing_a_pod
- jandrese 8y agoWhy are implementation details like this visible to the end user?
- notatoad 8y agoso what they're saying is "welcome to diaspora, now go somewhere else?"
- ashelmire 8y agoDiaspora has been a comedy of such errors for the decade it's existed.
- gaius 8y agoDiaspora has been a comedy of such errors for the decade it's existed I think I had a Diaspora account in like 2011... Then they announced they were blowing away everyone's account to redesign the database or something... Never bothered with it again.
- SlowRobotAhead 8y agoEngineers, not people.
- athenot 8y agoThe wording is poor. A more accurate way to put it is that to put together a good service, back-end engineering is critical but is only part of the story. Good UX is also critical to success, and that comes with a focus on the human needs, not just the technicalities of moving data around.
- SlowRobotAhead 8y agoWhat I meant was engineers made it for engineers. Dumping the database to change functionality is not something a successful user oriented system would do - but is something enigneers calling the shots would do.
- ashelmire 8y agoIt's something amateur engineers would do. Professionals should be able to handle database restructuring without losing data. Yes, it's harder, but... come on.
- lowercased 8y agoI was thinking slightly differently. If the system is being that radically altered that you can't migrate data, just call it v2.whatever.com.... or point the old one to legacy.whatever.com, and redirect people with messaging.
- DelightOne 8y agoAnd use on boarding/migration where the user can supply the missing additional data.
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- freehunter 8y agoDiaspora and Google+ and App.net really prove that funding and tech influencer press isn't enough to make a successful social network. Social networks are harder than they look.
- Kim_Bruning 8y agoThe home page is at: https://diasporafoundation.org/ https://diasporafoundation.org/ and there's a big green Join Us link top right.
- hundchenkatze 8y agoBetween https://joindiaspora.com https://joindiaspora.com and https://diasporafoundation.org/ https://diasporafoundation.org/ I'd assume the former is where I'd go to, um, join.
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- dredmorbius 8y agoPodUptime is amomg the better pickers out there. https://podupti.me https://podupti.me Specifically the pod wizard (2nd green button, upper left).
- dredmorbius 8y agoWhat specific information would you want to see?
- tentonbricks 8y agoA "join" link would make the most sense, considering the name of the site.
- dredmorbius 8y agoFair point, I'll pass it on.
- md224 8y agoHere's the account creation page for the largest US pod: https://diasp.org/users/sign_up https://diasp.org/users/sign_up
- nerdponx 8y agoThis page reads like an open-source software project manual, not a social network. Far far far too many words for what they are trying to accomplish.