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I keep hearing of people who have used Lemmy for a few days or a few weeks and want to start using a mobile version โ€“ often Voyager.

They open Voyager for the first time, and get a screen with a button for logging in. They get a choice for which Lemmy instance to join, but no place for entering their existing username or password.

I've told them that "in the first screen there is a button that is very difficult to notice, allowing you to use a pre-existing Lemmy username. Find that semi-hidden button, click it, and you can login."

It is of course a working workaround to pre-emptively tell people that the button exists, is just very well hidden, and needs to be clicked by most people who download Voyager. But still, it would be cool if the screen for new users could be altered so that the ability to log in with a pre-existing username was equally visible as the choice to create a new account!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Hey, thanks for the feedback!

So for the select an instance page, I tried to make it so you could login so you can't get "stuck" here: if you press the ellipse button in the header, there is an option to login. Maybe I could add an ellipse button to each instance, I'm not sure. That might be too much noise.

For the landing page, maybe something like this? Please note, I want to keep the "join" prominent so that new users, without an existing lemmy account, can easily sign up.

(pretend "create an account" is in grey as a label. I made it red to show as a change)

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Small suggestion: maybe "sign up" is more clear than "Join"?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"sign up lemm.ee" doesn't english too well ๐Ÿ˜›

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
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