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> As designed the UX is bad and cannot be fixed because of these issues. For fun I just tried signing up and the process itself is confusing, sluggish, buggy,
by colin_jack 4y ago
> As designed the UX is bad and cannot be fixed because of these issues.
For fun I just tried signing up and the process itself is confusing, sluggish, buggy, and ultimately didn’t work. It feels like it’ll need to improve very quiclkly if it’s going to capture any significant amount of Twitter users.
- PebblesRox 4y agoThe slowness and bugs might be due to the sudden influx of people from Twitter. I just joined a small server that is now having to scale up a bit to accommodate all the new traffic, and I assume the more popular servers are seeing an even bigger bump. I was actually expecting the sign up process to be a lot more difficult than it was for me, just based on the impression I'd gotten from various HN comments over the years. I encourage anyone curious to try it out for themselves.
- colin_jack 4y ago> The slowness and bugs might be due to the sudden influx of people from Twitter Yeah definitely, feels like they should have seen this coming though. They have an opportunity that won’t come around again, and poor performance and confusing UX seem like pretty serious problems.
- ceejayoz 4y ago“They” describes a non-profit, low-resourced set of volunteers. Seeing it coming and being able to do something about it aren’t the same thing.
- colin_jack 4y agoI dunno, on performance they could just have limited number of registrations to what they can handle. Better that than having potential users getting a bad impression because everything is too slow.
- ceejayoz 4y agoQuite a few of the larger public servers have done exactly that.
- toofy 4y agomaybe there are different signup processes on different servers or something? for me it was enter an email address, username, and password?