[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Welcome page interrupts Oauth authorization flow for newly created OSM accounts (Issue #4246)

[Branko Kokanovic]

> Are third-party apps going to keep up to date with all the changes and translations?
 

Are third-party apps keeping up to date with tags?:) My take is that third-party apps should have fundamental sovereignty to decide what they present to user when they interact with them. Same as how they have full autonomy to decide what tags they will use or how notes will be uploaded or how big bbox of changeset should be. And it is up to community and OSMF to keep those apps in check and that they don't go rogue. Furthermore, welcome screen is not legal requirement, it is just something that makes sense for general-purpose editor, but it is not very well fit for *all* editors (for example, I would argue that StreetComplete could have completely different welcome screen if they can choose). Looking at current `/welcome` screen, one can see it is mixture of community norms, but also sprinkled with introduction to iD editor (not all editors use node/way/tag models visible) (to be clear, for Map builder, we will also need to have "don't copy from g" communication)



> We could serve the "inner" html to be rendered in the user's environment

This could complicate both OSM codebase while 1) we still couldn't enforce third-party apps to show it and/or 2) it will still hinder on signup flow. For context, Map builder would like to present this dialog when session start, not when user is signed up (which happens after user clicks "save")

> I think it needs to be osm.org.

I tried to argument it above why I still think third-party apps should be given more agency, but if you still think osm.org need to show it (please reconsider), let's explore other, "mail approach". So, in this case, signup over osm.org will be same as today. But, for signup over third-party apps, we would skip welcome screen, and at that point, we would send "welcome" mail to users' mail address. This mail have html+plain text content that is similar to `/welcome` page, but I think we can benefit with some changes (for example, I would remove "basic terms for mapping", "start mapping" and "Add a note" parts while replacing them with some text that explains that users can visit openstreeetmap.org and that there are other editors available there). In a distant future (not sure if we can do this), we can detect bounced mails and decide what to do if we can detect them (disable user until mail is changed?, notify user with some banner when they visit osm.org?...)

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