Bugzilla – Bug 8977
Add PIN back to main splash page
Last modified: 2009-01-23 20:39:42 UTC
Brian noticed that new users who set up a new squeezebox are presented with a PIN and told to go to www.squeezenetwork.com, where there's no place to type in the PIN. Let's add it back. I propose some text like this: ---------------------------------------------- Setting up a new Squeezebox? If you have a PIN, enter it here: [ ] Otherwise, just click (Get Started) ---------------------------------------------- Brian, please review!
The user will have to log in to SN before he can add a player, right? Or do you mean show that box if he's already logged in?
No, I mean put the PIN field on the not-logged-in home page so that when the instructions tell them to go to www.squeezenetwork.com and type in a PIN, there's a place on that page to do so. _All_ that field will do is pre-populate the PIN field on this page: http://www.squeezenetwork.com/user/register/
I remember we used to have this on SqueezeNetwork when I first started, do we have screenshots of that iteration?
Dean - I kindly ask you to punt this until we've redone the skin. There's no room left on that page. Moving anything will very likely break the utterly fragile layout. And it's a real pita to "fix" it, as it will break in every other language. Really - we shouldn't do any more work in that skin. It's a waste of time. "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." Fixing one line while the whole screen is one big mess.
Oh, BTW: the layout with the Alice logo is already broken, as the logo is higher than what used to be there. Now the full page is overflowing our !*#@ background. This layout not only hurts my eye, but my head too.
Last issue opened as new bug 9390.
Matt, can you work with Michael to get a good design that fixes this?
Yeah. In tandem with this, I'm already working on a stripped-down signup flow for squeezenetwork.com that will include the PIN field in a form that will exist on this screen. I recommend we close this bug or re-target it to be solved as part of this upcoming feature (which I hope to have up on grouphub very soon, maybe by end of day tomorrow). As for the skin, the upcoming feature is also going to recommend removing a lot of the images from the home page, so perhaps there will still be enough room to work with. Having said that, Michael and I (and maybe Noah?) need to get together very soon and discuss a strategy going forward for the new skin. At the very least I could provide interim graphics and layout so we can kill the fixed-height and fixed-width issues...
Verified fixed in (sv) r5231/r24205
This bug has been fixed in the latest release of SqueezeNetwork! If you are still experiencing this problem, feel free to reopen the bug with your new comments and we'll have another look.