I don't mean to be dismissive, there are some good ideas in this post... but if spending 1.5 minutes looking for the login button is a major issue for you, you're about to have a bad time. I know people on Reddit are pitching Lemmy as the solution for people who are irritated about losing access to the hyper-polished third-party reddit app for their choice... but... realistically... the experience is not comparable. There are A LOT of rough edges, and it's not just the edges that need work... there's deep down federation jank and performance jank and "inner loop" UI jank you have yet to discover. And of those things... devs are likely to be fairly ruthlessly prioritizing performance fixes for a while to keep the lights on while the Lemmy userbase doubles in size every 3 days. If people bounce off usability jank, it's probably for the best at the moment just to throttle the rate of adoption, and also to protect them from the worse jank that awaits on the other side a successful login.
Don't get me wrong, Lemmy is very promising and I'm enjoying spending a lot of time here. But enjoying it really requires a mindset of "I'm going to work past the flaws in order to try to do what I can to improve things", whether that's answering questions, making quality posts, modding communities, running instances, or fixing the codebase. If you're REALLY passionate about improving the login UX, you probably need to be ready to invest enough time to either:
- Mock up an improved login flow UI that's viable to implement in Jetpack and file a GitHub issue with those mockups.
- Or actually fix the code and submit a PR.
That's not to say that posting here is wrong or useless, but UX tweak suggestions that save a one time 1.5m cost on signin are not likely to be top of the existing devs mind right now, there's just an ocean of worse stuff that happens more frequently to pay attention to first. If you want this to jump the queue, you'll probably need to be prepared to do some non-trivial work to get the ball rolling.