Honey, I shrunk the list of pods...
Please don't be seduced by the title, it's not that ;)
What I want to draw your attention to is the following List of pods When people see this, they have an unpleasant reaction (I asked some): "what the fuck is that?"; "why would I need to know those details?"; "what about podadmins?"; "why would I trust those servers?"
I suggest we make the lists of pods more user friendly and transparent in a social media sense. We could add for instance a link to the podadmin (not to his/her real name, if she wants to be anonymous, but to a short presentation of herself - like, hey, I'm podadmin X, I like this and that, welcome to my pod) or a printscreen of "why is this pod different from others". I believe that would make joining diaspora* more entertaining and provocative!
sassonie
Tue 30 Dec 2014 10:02PM
The site looks to much for nerds. I don't mind, I am a nerd. :) But my friends are used to shitbook and if I want to convince them to use D* it has to be more smooth. I have to convince my heroine addicted friends to use FREE hay-like-weed. No way!
Dani'el Levity
Tue 30 Dec 2014 11:51PM
Rating for privacy laws per country is an awesome idea, too..
Can
Wed 31 Dec 2014 1:51AM
Splitting it in a simple and advanced view using a map for data visualisation like http://kartograph.org/showcase/charts/ could raise the conversion rate.
Dumitru Ursu
Wed 7 Jan 2015 4:26AM
It wold be nice to have it more compelling - right now is like an API presentation.
Theatre-X
Sat 17 Jan 2015 3:19PM
Yes, it would seem wise to list the most reknowned pods (shrekislove, diasporg, diasp.net, joindiaspora, etc) and drop the other ones OR have a separate listing or obscure the other pods with a "See more pods" or something.
kphong
Thu 22 Jan 2015 5:49PM
A simpler approach without loss of user control would help wider adoption.
Jason Robinson Sun 7 Dec 2014 12:50PM
(btw, this proposal is kinda useless since no one here except David owns podupti.me.. please don't create proposals if the proposal cannot be "implemented")
riderplus Sun 7 Dec 2014 12:56PM
Again @jasonrobinson - we need the community to voice, I cannot just go to @davidmorley and say "Hey, you know..I don't really like the list of pods, can you make it better?". BUT if we stand for this together, maybe we can persuade him...persuade him to help us make the list better, of course :)
Jason Robinson Sun 7 Dec 2014 12:57PM
Sorry I fail to see how voting on something will make David redesign
his site.. ;) Discussion GOOD, voting USELESS (unless the vote can
be implemented).
Jason Robinson · Sun 7 Dec 2014 12:49PM
This is an important point, and has been discussed many times before. BUT, podupti.me is maintained by @davidmorley and it's not really part of the core project site. It's of course the best we have, so that is why it's linked to, being a good list of pods :)
Btw, David has said many times that he will accept pull requests to improve the site. Want to improve it? Go to github, check out the code, improve and send a pull!
BUT, we do need a pod chooser in the project page too. IMHO, it should be more like a wizard, asking the user only a few simple questions, like what other social media sites the user uses (for the services). No lists, no complicated talk about pods and federation. Just a few buttons and then redirect to a suitable pod.