Better landing page request #1457
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This somewhat ties into #133. |
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We used to show the donation widget on profile pages to anonymous site users. Not sure what happened to that ... |
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I am about to start sending some users myself. I have not thought about the details yet but having a clear action to take on the landing page makes very much sense. So 👍 for having the donation widget available for anon users and requesting the sign in during donation. Also having the link for https://www.gittip.com/about/ somewhere more prominent would help. The ticket #133 includes all this but is too "big" to inspire some action right now. |
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@zwn Wanna review the PR here and merge if it works for you? |
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I should also mention #1167, which is a half-started attempt to provide a streamlined checkout experience (both on www.gittip.com and as a widget on other websites). |
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Let me be clearer: there is supposed to be a "Sign in to start giving" call to action on all profile pages, when viewed anonymously. It's supposed to look like this: That's not being shown right now due to a regression introduced with #1320. I've promoted this issue to a pull request with a fix for that regression. @zwn: If this fix works for you locally (you can see the call to action for anon profile views) then please go ahead and merge this pull request (GitHub merge button is fine). |
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@whit537 Ok, I'll look into it. |
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@zwn Thanks! :-) |
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@whit537 I see locally what is on your attached screenshot. However, what is supposed to happen when I click "confirm" when not signed in? Right now a popup is shown that the tip has been changed. On the network side there was a POST request to tip.json that returned 200 and the content was empty dict. |
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@zwn ... so I would say let's deal with that separately after we land this PR. |
Fix regression where anon couldn't start tipping
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Clicking "Confirm" while not signed in should say a warning message "please sign in" because else it makes no sense. If I confirm some amount and THEN sign in then my confirmed amount is lost anyway. |
I am running a project, which has a website with relatively big enough volume of visitors. (thousands per day). I would like to let them know about the possibility to donate money to the project by using gittip.
My intention was to explain briefly what gittip is and provide a link to my gittip landing page. However, my gittip landing page looks like this:
https://www.gittip.com/Tomas-M/
Please review the landing page when you are not signed in to gittip - as like 100% of my users will see it, since they are NOT signed in to gittip. What is the problem? The landing page is very confusing for a person who never saw it. It provides NO donate button (or similar). It provides no explanation for NEW users (who never saw gittip) what to do next. Probably the next step is to register / sign in, but users will not understand that.
I believe this is very important issue. New user must easily understand what to do next.
Suggestion: at least, if nothing else, please put there BIG wording like
Tomas-M RECEIVES
$0.00
per week, and gives $0.00
(the numbers are currently not there if I am not receiving anything yet. Providing the numbers will show the user that this is the place where money matters). And put there a wording which explains to the non-registered user that in order to donate, he should sign-in or register. I am also missing some wording which explains briefly what gittip is to the new visitor. This all will increase chances that a visitor sent to my landing page will easily understand what to do next in order to contribute.
Better will be of course to offer donations for non-registered users as well (to actually ask them to register/signin later, during the donation process, after they selected the amount to donate), but this may be more complicated. I'll be perfectly happy with the suggestions mentioned above. I am ready to start sending thousand visitors daily to my landing page.
Thanks