I don’t mean to be dismissive, there are some good ideas in this post… but if spending 1.5 minutes looking for the login button is a major issue for you, you’re about to have a bad time.
If I, of all people, am spending 1.5 minutes… then A LOT of people are going to be having a bad time. I have previously developed UIs. Onboarding is one of the most critical stages of engagement and adoption of applications.
The rest of your comments, to be frank, don’t make sense. Might even be dangerous, which really makes me question what you’re advocating for. Are you genuinely arguing for a poor onboarding experience just because people need to put in more work to understand something? Genuinely STOP, haha. It’s terrible to suggest such a thing.
Put yourself in the shoes of a non-expert user. You are definitely NOT representing the 90% average users, and that type of attitude will hurt the fediverse and open communication tools.
We want more people to join this community. We don’t want to guardrail it or make it difficult, which is the type of thing you are advocating for… for reasons that don’t make sense. Let’s get away from elitism and invite more people into this wonderful community, not whatever you just suggested!
Not touching that. Haha.