Basically why should someone click the “Get started” button.
"Enjoy a collaborative editing experience, while taking advantage of true serverless scalability, strong consistency, ACID-compliance, sharding, and other database properties."
"Programmatically interacting with records on RONIN is made possible through its unique query syntax, designed to allow for accessing data in the most “humane” way possible, as it closely mimics the English language."
Here's the syntax:
get.blogPosts = {
'where.author.handle.is': 'elaine',
'where.ronin.createdAt.isLessThan': new Date(),
including: ['author']
};
get.account.with.id = 'acc_fa0k5kkw35fik9pu';
get.account.with = {
lastName: 'Elaine',
email: 'elaine@kojima-productions.com'
};
const [post, comments] = await query(({ get }) => {
get.post.with.slug = 'new-pricing';
get.comments;
});
const [post, comments] = await query(({ get }) => [
get('post').with({slug: 'new-pricing'}),
get('comments')
]);Ok so the only thing on the page is a centered text box and a footer (feels like a strange choice) with "Log In" and "Get Started" button. When I see that I think "well, I'm not signing up to find out what this is" and get ready to leave. However first I try to scroll to see if there's anything "below" the fold, and surprise, there's nothing else. Why say below if there's nothing below?
But there's that Footer. This must be navigation, right? Introduction is highlighted, so presumably this control works like the footer in iOS? The fact that all four links are on the footer and one is highlighted leads me to believe that yes, this is a static footer that allows navigation across pages. I click the Features link, expecting the page to slide over and load a page with some discussion on what this actually is and what it's meant to accomplish, with Features highlighted on the footer. This is not what happened. The footer disappeared, and became a sidebar, which is also somehow my dashboard according to the text on page... MY dashboard? I haven't created any account. How am I meant to navigate back to the introduction page to get to the Updates or Community links? I click back in my browser. I go to the Updates page. It's a direct link to x.com, a site I don't want to touch with a ten foot pole. I was expecting a project blog for some reason, not fascist infested social media.
I came straight here to make this comment. In typing up this comment and interacting more with your site, I see there IS a way back to the Introduction page with the footer from the Features page, and it's called "Learn More" and leads back to the emptiest page on the site. What more am I learning on that page? Or from x.com (besides what a fusk Musk is)? I never made it to your Community page. I don't see a point when I still have no idea what this is yet. From mousing over it, I can tell that it's going to force my browser to send an xdg signal to open Discord. That's great. That's nice. I like when users aren't warned by the page where they're going. This is good design. Call it Discord for the sake of all.
This is what the introduction to the Features is:
> To query RONIN, start by creating a new App (such as “Website”) in the “Apps” section of your space on the dashboard (left sidebar), which will provide you with a token.
This is the first thing on the page and really doesn't tell me what this is or is meant to accomplish in plain language. This does not introduce me to the features, it tells me to interact with a UI element that does not exist because I have not made an account because I don't want to create one for a product that I don't understand. And I'm certainly not installing this through npm before I even know what this software is capable or accomplishes.
Respectfully, I have no idea what this is or what I'm supposed to take away from it other than bad ideas not to emulate.