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Congrats on the launch, David and team. Quick first impressions from trying this out now: 1. The Persona sign up surprised me a bit. I'm ok with it, but if you
by revorad 13y ago
Congrats on the launch, David and team. Quick first impressions from trying this out now:
1. The Persona sign up surprised me a bit. I'm ok with it, but if you're aiming at non-tech folks, it might be a bit of a problem. Do you offer a normal email+pwd signup too?
2. I chose a name for my forum and signed up with Persona. After logging in, I'm expecting to see my forum, but this is what I see: http://i.imgur.com/lWG9Ta0.png http://i.imgur.com/lWG9Ta0.png
Not sure what to do, maybe I need to click "Add a site"? When I do, I realise it's for creating another forum.
Oh I didn't know I was making an account which allowed me to make multiple forums! Also, using "site" and "forum" interchangeably threw me off.
3. Ok, so what I was first looking at after signing in was my dashboard. So now I go back there, and I notice the tiny greyed out link babies.microco.sm. Click on it and it takes me to: http://i.imgur.com/FI5HKPF.png http://i.imgur.com/FI5HKPF.png
"This is such a new site that there are no forums."
Now I'm really confused. A site has multiple forums?
So I'm not logged into my own forum? Click on Sign in or Register in the top right corner.
Persona again! Now, as a forum owner nerd I might be ok with it, but other users of my forum almost certainly won't be.
Anyway, sign in. Then click on "Create your first forum" and get these two questions: http://i.imgur.com/75GNpQ6.png http://i.imgur.com/75GNpQ6.png
"What is the name of the forum?" and "What is the forum about?"
But I thought I already answered these questions when I first signed up!! -> http://i.imgur.com/QirI0Sx.png http://i.imgur.com/QirI0Sx.png
Anyway, I do that and then my forum is finally created and I was able to make a post and reply to it. The Microco.sm logo on my site/forum is confusing. It'd be nicer if you used the name of my site by default instead.
That's probably enough for you to go on for the initial UX :)
Caveats: I've never run a forum and I'm unlikely to do so in the near future. I did this purely as an exercise to try your app out. So, take it with a giant boulder of salt.
- buro9 13y agoYou've raised some good points. We're already changing the account dashboard as it's likely that most people will only run 1 or 2 forums, so a list is not ideal. We're going to take you straight to editing the forum colours and logo, rather than to the list of sites. And if we keep a list it will only appear when a second site has been created. Agree on the bad interchangeable use of forum and site. Persona is a strange one... every technical person raises it as an issue and some get confused by part of the process, but no users have. We've got 70 year old cyclists excited that it's the first time they've ever joined a community and engaged with it, and 16 year olds equally joyous at just being somewhere others who share their interest are. None raise Persona as an issue, but it does keep coming up from technical people. Given that Persona feels like it's in flux (recent HN item on it), we may re-visit this to ensure that even the tech people are happy.
- revorad 13y agoI'm surprised and happy to learn that non-techies don't mind Persona. Sorry for going on about it.