733243 - [Meta] Make a great first run experience for Pancake

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Pancake Graveyard :: Front-end, defect)

Description

[Ian Barlow (:ibarlow)]

This is the meta bug for all things First Time UX in Pancake.

After the app launches for the first time, users should be able to easily

* Understand what Pancake is
* Log in / Set up BrowserID
* Hook up their social feeds
* Start Searching and Browsing
* [Optional] Try using some sample content we decide on -OR-
* [Optional] Try using some sample content we provide based on a questionnaire

Comment 1

[Sam Foster [:sfoster] (he/him)]

Started working on this is a setup-flow branch. That changes root.mustache and created a root.app with some (so far) simple logic to start to define the flow. 

But, after talking with stuart, it'll change again: 

stuart: sfoster: for login flow, i think we're going to put a landing screen before the first page
stuart: so they will be going down a sign up (vs login) path
stuart: (from the start)
sfoster: ok, we could do it that way.
sfoster: right now, I'm adding some content, and front-end logic to the root page ('/')
sfoster: The beta thing complicates it a little bit
stuart: so we can remove that i think
sfoster: but it might be better in a separate page entirely. I thought that at first then changed my mind. Now I'm changing it again.
stuart: so the landing screen kind of address that
stuart: so what ian and i were discussing was a landing screen which either has:
stuart: sign in / sign up
stuart: or just sign in / get on waiting list
stuart: the sign up page could just redirect back if you accessed it when we're "closed for new signups"
stuart: sign up can go down the path described
sfoster: ok, so sign up  redirects you to say /setup which walks you throw the setup flow.
stuart: so you click sign up from the landing page and it takes you to welcome
stuart: right
sfoster: and utimately does what? redirects you to /main?
stuart: yeah
stuart: or /main?newuser=true
st3fan: are things in a good state? can i update play?
sfoster: right, so you get the "search here" overlays
stuart: right