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Comment by weberer | Hacker News Reader

There are buttons for the Play Store and App Store halfway down. Its under the heading: "A very first build, limited by (play & i) stores"

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Even after reading this comment I went searching for the button and it took a while to find it.

And the homepage says in bold letters “The PeerTube mobile app for Android & iOS is out!” but it’s not a link! There’s a link further down but it goes to this article where you then have to scroll.

Not every site has to be super conversion optimized but it’s just common sense to put a CTA at the head of an announcement. joinmastodon.org gets it!

That's 2/3rds down a very long page. Most people won't go down that far unless they're quite interested in the material.

You wont install an app if you are not interested in the material

None of the apps I've installed in the past are because I was invested in the developer's marketing materials.

That's an assumption and not necessarily true. Some users may read it, some may skim, some may come to the page already convinced. For those latter groups, having a fast lane/shortcut call-to-action visible someplace like the top gives them a way to get started before they get overwhelmed/distracted and potentially leave.

that's the kind of attitude that makes otherwise successful apps/content/etc created by stiff engineer minds to never experience any success: "they didn't want it anyway", when people literally didn't _understand_ what you were trying to sell.

But not on https://joinpeertube.org/, which seems pretty important.

There is another one at the end.

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