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no_gravity | 5 years ago
1: Clicked on "Try Now".
2: Was greeted with a blob of text. Spotted "The easiest way to try Matrix is to use the Riot Web ...".
3: Clicked on "Riot Web" because that is a link.
4: Got transferred to a different website with a lot of buttons on it.
5: Clicked on the green "Get started button"
6: Got transferred to another page with a bunch of buttons on it
7: Clicked on "Browser"
8: A new window with a "Sign in" and a "Create Account" button opened
9: Clicked on "Create account"
10: Entered a username and password
11: Got asked to do the Google Captcha
12: Had to select 4 tiles with traffic lights and cklick next
13: Was told to select stairs.
14: Since there were no stairs, I clicked "Skip"
15: Had to select 7 tiles with fire hidrants and click next
16: Had to select 4 tiles with traffic lights and click next
17: Had to select 3 tiles with traffic lights and click next
18: Had to accept terms an conditions and click "accept"
19: Had to enter a recovery passphrase.
20: Had to confirm my recovery passphrase.
21: Was forced to click a "copy" button to copy the recovery passphrase.
22: Had to click "continue"
23: Staring at a spinner for a while.
24: Was prompted with an "OK" button. Clicked it.
25: Was prompted with a "Welcome to Riot" page with different options.
26: Clicked "Explore public rooms".
27: Clicked on the first one.
28: Had to look at a spinner for a while with "Joining room" next to it.
29: Still looking at the spinner ...
30: Spinner is still spinning ... will take the time to post this to HN.
Update:
31: Back to the Matrix window. Hurray! I'm in a channel. Typing "Hello" and enter. It seems to work.
I wonder if it would be an option to shortcut these 31 steps into just one and throw everyone who clicks "Try Now" into a "Welcome to Matrix" channel.
Arathorn|5 years ago
* We need to make it easier to jump into Riot/Web from the matrix.org home page.
* Google reCAPTCHA sucks; we know.
* The new recovery passphrase thing is an error - we know, we're in the middle of fixing it, targeting next week.
* Joining rooms is slow - we know, this is harder to fix, but is on the menu.
Thanks for spelling it out ;)
no_gravity|5 years ago
Since I did not save my password when signing up, I proceeded to set an email. Got a confirmation email and clicked the link in it.
Then signed out and clicked the "Set a new password" link.
But it does not work. I always get the message "Failed to send email: This email address was not found".
tbran|5 years ago
I will say, however, that a lot of the difficulty appears to be tied to the privacy aspects. I think it's the only service I checked out that didn't require an email or phone number to sign up. I think the privacy/ease of signup trade-off is okay right now, and I also think that Riot is trying to make it better.
Also, I'm successfully using it with non-tech-oriented family and it's been quite good!
MayeulC|5 years ago
Regarding the p2p app (https://p2p.riot.im), yeah, that's a proof-of-concept they bolted onto an existing client. They could have adjusted the login page.
I need to click "Create an account" for it to work, give or take one page refresh. Then I can open the room directory and pick a room.
However, I tend to like some of that hand-holding. Plus, when someone joins a chat system, they're generally introduced to it by acquaintances that already use it, so the next onboardings are easier. Not saying it shouldn't be improved, of course.
thrwaway69|5 years ago