<p>More context to what <a href="https://github.com/jfirebaugh" class="user-mention">@jfirebaugh</a> and I discussed:</p>
<p>A <a href="http://osmlab.github.io/welcome-osm/">welcome OSM style page</a> (which this patch is inspired by) feels very different on OSM and I think we'll need to adjust it to fit more organically with OSM.org.</p>
<h3>Issues</h3>
<p>Right now the functionality <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/338">as initially proposed here</a> suffers from a couple of issues:</p>
<ol>
<li>Welcome page is presented twice with slight modification, once before, once after sign up. Why would I read the same twice?</li>
<li>It is too long for something you read while signing up.</li>
<li>One map - many web sites doesn't quite make sense if you're not coming from any third party OSM service. We're also in hairy territory: we're saying something about minutely or hourly updates where some third party services just don't offer that or aren't even a map. <a href="https://github.com/woodpeck" class="user-mention">@woodpeck</a> and others have brought up concerns on this thread of who's to show up on this graph and who not.</li>
<li>It's not clear from where on OpenStreetMap.org a user would land on welcome-osm.</li>
</ol><h3>Fixes</h3>
<p>The raw mockups <a href="https://github.com/jfirebaugh" class="user-mention">@jfirebaugh</a> <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/338#issuecomment-21570065">posted above</a> specifically introduce these adjustments to address the above issues:</p>
<ul>
<li>Offer <em>different</em> content before sign up and after sign up.</li>
<li>Before sign-up content is offered on the sign up page itself and uses a short text about OSM, encouraging users to sign up to get started mapping.</li>
<li>After sign up we present content instructing users on how to get started mapping.</li>
<li>Completely remove "One map: many websites" and make contextualizing OSM the problem of 3rd party sites like OpenCycleMaps, Skobbler, Wheelmap, Foursquare, MapQuest etc.. They will have to do this anyway.</li>
</ul>
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