[orion-dev] OrionHub feedback from Europe

[John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I received the feedback below via email
from a developer in Europe who was trying out OrionHub this week. I am
forwarding it here for the team's awareness. We have been doing a lot of
performance work on the edit page in particular, but it looks like the
landing page could use some love to improve the first user experience.

Looking at the root index.html, I see
it loads a whole bunch of _javascript_ only to do this:

         
      window.location = "edit/edit.html";

Maybe we can replace this with a basic
HTML redirect meta tag to save one level of churn. Does anyone know/remember
why the index page does this?

John

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Today I wanted to have a
look at https://orionhub.org/
after a long time. 
  
Here in Austria, the web
browser remains blank for a very long time (10-15 seconds) before anything
gets rendered. 
I assume it’s loading JS
libraries … the user experience feels really broken initially. I first
thought I had entered the wrong URL and was about to leave the page. 

Trying to play with it, it
happened multiple times to me that a page didn’t open properly. The “Settings”
page, for example, typically remained blank (and I had to “reload”).
Getting logged in with my github account was a real pain (multiple timeouts
etc).  In the end, I think I “somewhat” got it to work but it was
not a good OOBE.

With the landing page going
right into the live instance, as a user one is pretty lost with OOBE workflows.