[nickjj]

I'm surprised so many folks are saying DigitalOcean is bad at this in the comments.

Their home page on a desktop has 2 equally sized sign in and sign up buttons in the top right. The sign up button is filled and the sign in button is outlined. In mobile view it's pretty bad, they still show both buttons side by side but they're buried under a hundred miles of product links.

Besides the buttons being pushed so far down on mobile, is that design really hard to find the sign in link -- specifically on desktop?

Interestingly enough Stripe has only a sign in button in their nav bar https://stripe.com/ for non-logged in potential customers. I just checked with an incognito window. I guess they determined users who sign up mostly come from the main area of their home page or through another page reached from their nav menu (products, use cases, etc.), not so much from a sign up button near the sign in button.

[thomasahle]

If you shrink the website to half your screen width, the "Sign In" button goes away, and there is only "Sign Up".

You can get to "Sign In" by clicking the burger menu and scroll sufficiently far down, or by searching. You can't find it by simply searching on the front page, or by just clicking the burger menu. I guess that's what people mean by "having to go hunting for the sign in button".

[nickjj]

> If you shrink the website to half your screen width, the "Sign In" button goes away, and there is only "Sign Up".

Interesting, I don't see that here. I wonder if they're A / B testing layouts and my IP is locked into a specific choice.

If I open the page in Chrome or Firefox I see both buttons side by side and then if I slowly make the window smaller (starting at 2560 width btw), it eventually gets to the point where both buttons disappear inside of the hamburger menu when the buttons get too close to the left nav. The sign up button is never visible on its own.

Which browser do you use?

[thomasahle]

One of the Sign Up buttons go into the burger menu, but the really big one stays on the front page: https://imgur.com/0bFzIiB

[batch12]

I actually thought of DigitalOcean first when I saw the title of the article. I somehow always end up clicking sign up instead of sign in.