Speaking of first time user experience, there is probably a lot of room for improvement for the "onboarding" screen. It's kinda out of everybody's mind because you only see it once ever.

I get to see it more during development, and it doesn't look great.

The fact that we don't do any tracking or analytics complicates matters. It's really hard to tell whether a change actually has any positive effect. I literally don't have any data to tell me whether after we added the onboarding modal more new users stayed or not.
@Gargron This did surprise me about Masto when I joined. Is there a reason analytics is particularly difficult to implement, or is it just not high enough compared to other priorities?

@edensaesthetic @Gargron one of the reasons I am using mastodon is it isn't using analytics.

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