Hi, Stella. Thank you for this interesting interview. I’ll be checking out Lawrence Systems’ forum shortly. In the meantime, I asked my wife to read the end of this topic from: Sign up for our newsletter! The first she asked was, “Where’s the sign up link?” I told her in the small print at the bottom was the link to the article on Discourse’s blog, and the sign up link is at the bottom of the (same) article there. She thought it was strange that none of that was mentioned.
Maybe a 1-sentence notice as to exactly where the newsletter sign-up can be found on the blog would help users new to Meta to find it easier? I had my wife click on the link to go to the blog and again she asked was, “So where do you sign up for the newsletter?” I told her at the bottom of the article.
She thought it was weird for someone who read the article on Meta, clicked the link to the blog topic and there’s no newsletter sign box. Would everyone know it’s below the same article they had just read on Meta? After scrolling down to the end of the article she finally saw the newsletter sign up box. She said that was almost like jumping through hoops to find the sign up box, and that if I hadn’t told her where it was, if she probably wouldn’t have bothered to scroll down to the end of the article if she had already read it on Meta. I think she has a good point.
What say you? 