[jotaen]

Just a brief feedback on usage of the website: I’m not sure I understand what clicking on one of the projects on the homepage does. It always takes me to the same profile site of some “Anonymous Lurker” (supposedly me?) with some text written in first-person. I find this flow a little confusing as it’s not clear to me what I’m supposed to do or get out of that.

[hnarayanan]

I just came to say this. I think it means one must setup an account and login to see project details? But that sounds like a lot.

[samrus]

I even set up an account. But the confirmation link in the email is broken

It makes me think the projects arent organic but placeholders, because how are people posting projects without accounts? I would love if the account creation process was fixed so people could post interesting side projects i could browse through

[0dKD]

ah! darn it! i think my partner right now just tried to make the "confirmation email" feature so thats fresh of the press and probably doesnt work yet. sorry!

You cant post project without account, so the ones that are there were made before we now tried to fix the email confirmation stuff. we are on it!

[mdaniel]

I mean this in all honesty, not snark: did you partner not actually test that feature before pushing it live?

[samrus]

Id give them a pass. Non professional development is already hard as is

If the problem we have with modern professionally developed software is that its become soulless and treats its users like resources to exploit rather than partners to work with, in exchange for dangling polish and convenience in front of their faces, then the alternative is this: hobby devs who sometimes mess up and rely on community feedback

I think this is healthy

[stevage]

To be fair, having worked on this stuff, it can be difficult to test features like email confirmation separately from prod. (Obviously in a big commercial environment you have all the infrastructure for that, but you don't necessarily have that here.)

[0dKD]

:D

Dont know, didnt talk to him when he was doing that. We're just two guys trying to make something cool that can change the world! But yeah, on the road to that we should test as well

[0dKD]

very useful, thank you! ill have a look at this flow. my first thought when creating this that i thought was funny was that every visitor to the site could click what seems like an already created profile pic up to the right, and then they would see their profiles and see they are a "Proud rat" lurker as of now (until you commit more and make a profile). but i totally hadnt thought of that you also end up on the profile page after clicking a project when not logged in, and that of course feels weird. ill do something there, thanks!

[jwong_]

I was also confused. I think the copy just needs some revising

Probably intends to say something along the lines of “please login to see more, you can’t lurk a project beyond the homepage”