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  1. @UserOnboard appreciate follow-up!
    Firefox 39(beta)/MacOSX 10.7.5, noscript by default
    Good to know it was unintended!

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  2. How not to onboard users, as shown by @UserOnboard:
    * Block content with a “Your email” form overlay
    * Misleading copy: “Without further ado, here is...” [actually with one further “ado” — please give us your email address first]
    * Mocking copy: “Thanks for reading!” blocks content to be read
    * Creepy first-person copy: “… because I know you’re busy” — ‘I’ who? Is @UserOnboard claiming to be a self-aware AI?

    Screenshot: a png.
    of https://www.useronboard.com/how-applemusic-onboards-new-users/ — article via @KevinMarks.

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  3. Today’s the humpday of year.
    182 days before, 182 days after today.
    Happy Third New Sunday! newcal.org/#fiveSunrevolutionsyncdays

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