Just want to say thanks for responding to this message. It's really nice to see how you replied and explained your roadmap. It shows you're really interested in making this work
Comments like these make my day, I'm always happy to respond :)
And it's a very reasonable concern. Admittedly, I get ~2mbps/down at home so it takes a bit to load and I'd been surprised that nobody else had commented on this until today. I've pushed it to the top of our v2.2 roadmap so it's our highest immediate focus now (will have a fix within a week).
Just trying to build this one step at a time wherever the community takes it!
Another bit of feedback: You have external links, such as the deep linking one [1] and it'd be great (and expected behavior) to have those open in a new tab rather than open in the current tab and lost my in-progress work.
Followup: I created a test and clicked the preview link and it shows "page not found". Not sure if it's because it takes a while or what, but if so then there should be a note somewhere about that. Also I have no idea how to publish this thing. I'd expect the publish option to be somewhere near the preview link. I then checked settings to see if it'd be in there for some reason but nope. However I did see the detail information. Honestly I think this should be the first screen and given a different name (possibly just "Details") since I wouldn't really classify these things as Settings. If I wasn't poking around I would have just assumed you weren't able to change these details because of that.
I see there's a "tour" option, but just wanted to let you know my reactions based on intuition since that's what most people will be going off of.
So by default, pages come unpublished (so it says page not found), but recently the suggestion has been made to publicize pages by default and we're think that would be a big help here, but we'll also reconsider moving the publish select to a button near your profile link. In the meantime you can update the "Visibility" under "Settings" (I also agree this would be better as details), but admittedly it's a bit mislabeled and without any tour or onboarding it's easy to see why it's hard to find. I'll take a good look at how it can be improved this over the next week.
Let me know if you have any more feedback, this was super helpful!
Oh okay I see what happened. When I was looking at the "preview mode" text on the side with the link above it I jumped to conclusions and thought that was a preview link. Without really reading the link I just thought it made sense due to their proximity and that I hadn't published yet.
As for the visibility link, I see it now. The issue there is my intuition wouldn't have thought that'd be in the middle of a form. Was honestly expecting it to be something "broken out" and a colored but since it's actionable (with I suppose the dropdown arrow to the side with the other options). My personal opinion for the best place would be in the preview area. Up above the preview like the singlelink is now I'd have a dropdown with the publish options, a separate "Publish" button under that (colored to draw attention), and then a hyperlink of your singlelink with a clipboard symbol next to it to copy the link.
Also under the settings it'd be nice to have a checkbox for a round photo or a square photo.
Edit: After playing with it more I see that it auto-updates/publishes the changes you're making. Due to that I agree that it should publish by default. A staging feature might be a good option for your paid plans.
And it's a very reasonable concern. Admittedly, I get ~2mbps/down at home so it takes a bit to load and I'd been surprised that nobody else had commented on this until today. I've pushed it to the top of our v2.2 roadmap so it's our highest immediate focus now (will have a fix within a week).
Just trying to build this one step at a time wherever the community takes it!