[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Move continue auth/start mapping button to appear fixed to the bottom of the welcome page (PR #4947)

[Branko Kokanovic]

Just to give more context to the public - Map builder started experimenting with SSO flow and we notice that "only" 35% of users finishes sign-up procedure (@pietervdvn can comment too, if you have numbers for MapComplete). This PR tries to improve sign-up rate for both users coming to osm.org and coming from third-party apps.

There is not much to say that isn't already said in https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/4246. In that solution, we thought it would be good to skip "welcome" page (or shorten it) as it presents partially unnecessary information for users coming from other apps and move part of its content for async consumption (e-mail) and move education bits to editors. If we don't want to go with that solution, it would be at least good to have this button pinned. We tried to do pinning for both buttons ("Start mapping" and "Continue auth") as per @tomhughes comment in https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/4246#issuecomment-1770532334. 

> The obvious risk here is that it encourages people to hit the button and get going without reading the page first.

I guess if people do not want to read page, they will just scroll to the bottom even today (if they figure out there is something at the bottom!). Those who want to read it - can read it, this change doesn't block that. Most important parts IMHO ("What's on the map" and about not copying from other maps) are prominent and visible even without scrolling.

**At the end of day - this is just a standard visual clue to signify to users that there is something to click/proceed.**

P.S. If you think it is mandatory for users to read it, we can disable button until users scroll to the bottom (as some legal text require user to do), but I hope we are not going there (and whole solution would look like "design by committee" to me😄).

P.P.S. I can go to philosophical rent about ad tech/social network companies and web trends and how they used "engagement" metrics and stole our attention span, so that now every wall of text is insurmountable mountain to pass, and how it affects osm.org, but it is more for diary:)

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