Perhaps the point is to fix it up a little before getting more folks to join?
Comment on Some thoughts on Surf, Flipboard's fediverse app
recently_Coco@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
I just went to download it and realized I needed an invite code because the beta is closed.
When I went to sign up for the wait-list, it turns out I’m already on it, since last DECEMBER!
So they either need to let more folks in real quick, or they cannot gain traction by word of mouth.
FundMECFS@quokk.au 1 week ago
recently_Coco@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
I just find it weird I’ve been on the wait-list for 7 months. Long enough for me to have completely forgotten I even signed up in the first place.
They’re certainly taking plenty of time.
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 week ago
I got in several months ago but they require a fucking Google account to activate it so they can get fucked as long as that’s around. My invite code is RWSDFE, have fun.
rglullis@communick.news 6 days ago
If your goal is to get the masses to try something new, making it as easy as possible to onboard them makes absolute sense. That includes letting them sign up using something that 98.123456789% of the people use.
And if you already are out of Big Tech hell hole, then you likely already know how to find and manage and curate your own feeds.
Ulrich@feddit.org 6 days ago
I don’t understand how one could possibly think that requiring a Google account would make it easier to onboard new users…
The software necessary to do what Surf does, as far as I’m aware, doesn’t exist elsewhere.
rglullis@communick.news 6 days ago
Simple. “Log in with Google” is a lot less friction than getting people to sign up to a new service. Even more so for a mobile-focused application like Surf/Flipboard.
Isn’t it “just” a feed reader with a pre-curated list of feeds? Doing that is not complicated. The hard part is doing it in a way that it is easy for non-techies.