From 3c17810747c027f53d3d0318669d3f0a32b39b5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cory McWilliams <cory@unprompted.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2025 18:39:15 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] welcome: Update the welcome page to be a bit more direct and
 relevant. #124

---
 apps/welcome.json       |   2 +-
 apps/welcome/index.html | 136 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 2 files changed, 95 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)

diff --git a/apps/welcome.json b/apps/welcome.json
index 82868551..5a34f75b 100644
--- a/apps/welcome.json
+++ b/apps/welcome.json
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
 	"type": "tildefriends-app",
 	"emoji": "👋",
-	"previous": "&1o8MrBHfH42NnO+ruajwCmW/DUCb+IT1qtnAZI/agyo=.sha256"
+	"previous": "&lqnpIZjz89faC8vMHQiW3mDI5UsaByC3/x8diBr0EtI=.sha256"
 }
diff --git a/apps/welcome/index.html b/apps/welcome/index.html
index b4ba408e..b3e72102 100644
--- a/apps/welcome/index.html
+++ b/apps/welcome/index.html
@@ -28,23 +28,12 @@
 						<b>😎 Tilde Friends</b>
 					</h1>
 					<h1 class="w3-xxlarge w3-text-green">
-						<b
-							>the Secure Scuttlebutt decentralized social network client that's
-							<i>fancy🎩</i></b
-						>
+						<b>a Secure Scuttlebutt decentralized social network client</b>
 					</h1>
 					<p>
 						In addition to participating in Secure Scuttlebutt, Tilde Friends is
 						a platform for building, running, and sharing applications.
 					</p>
-					<p>
-						Available for lots of devices:
-						<i class="fa-brands fa-linux w3-xlarge"></i>
-						<i class="fa-brands fa-android w3-xlarge"></i>
-						<i class="fa-brands fa-apple w3-xlarge"></i>
-						<i class="fa fa-mobile-screen w3-xlarge"></i>
-						<i class="fa-brands fa-windows w3-xlarge"></i>
-					</p>
 					<a
 						class="w3-button w3-blue w3-padding-large"
 						href="https://www.tildefriends.net/~core/ssb/"
@@ -70,35 +59,6 @@
 						href="https://www.tildefriends.net/~cory/tildeblog/"
 						><i class="fa fa-solid fa-square-rss"></i> Blog</a
 					>
-					<p>
-						<a
-							class="w3-button w3-round-large w3-padding w3-blue-gray w3-margin-top"
-							href="https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.unprompted.tildefriends.fdroid/"
-							><img src="f-droid.svg" style="height: 2em; margin: 0" /> Get it
-							on F-Droid</a
-						>
-						<a
-							class="w3-button w3-round-large w3-padding w3-blue-gray w3-margin-top"
-							href="https://dev.tildefriends.net/releases/tildefriends-x86_64.AppImage"
-						>
-							<img src="appimage.svg" style="height: 2em; margin: 0" />
-							Get Linux 64-bit AppImage
-						</a>
-						<a
-							class="w3-button w3-round-large w3-padding w3-blue-gray w3-margin-top"
-							href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.unprompted.tildefriends"
-						>
-							<img src="googleplay.svg" style="height: 2em; margin: 0" />
-							Get it on Google Play (Open Testing)
-						</a>
-						<a
-							class="w3-button w3-round-large w3-padding w3-blue-gray w3-margin-top"
-							href="https://testflight.apple.com/join/tXxgtSpE"
-						>
-							<img src="ios.svg" style="height: 2em; margin: 0" />
-							Get it on iOS (TestFlight)
-						</a>
-					</p>
 				</div>
 				<div class="w3-col l4 m6">
 					<img src="tildefriends.png" class="w3-image w3-right w3-hide-small" />
@@ -123,8 +83,100 @@
 							<a href="https://www.tildefriends.net/"
 								>https://www.tildefriends.net/</a
 							>.
+							<div class="w3-cell-row">
+								<div class="w3-container w3-cell">
+									<h3>Mobile</h3>
+									<p>
+										<a
+											class="w3-button w3-round-large w3-padding w3-blue-gray w3-margin-top"
+											href="https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.unprompted.tildefriends.fdroid/"
+											><img src="f-droid.svg" style="height: 2em; margin: 0" />
+											Get it on F-Droid</a
+										>
+										<a
+											class="w3-button w3-round-large w3-padding w3-blue-gray w3-margin-top"
+											href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.unprompted.tildefriends"
+										>
+											<img
+												src="googleplay.svg"
+												style="height: 2em; margin: 0"
+											/>
+											Get it on Google Play (Open Testing)
+										</a>
+										<a
+											class="w3-button w3-round-large w3-padding w3-blue-gray w3-margin-top"
+											href="https://testflight.apple.com/join/tXxgtSpE"
+										>
+											<img src="ios.svg" style="height: 2em; margin: 0" />
+											Get it on iOS (TestFlight)
+										</a>
+									</p>
+									<p>Just launch the app.</p>
+								</div>
+								<div class="w3-container w3-cell">
+									<h3>Web</h3>
+									<p>
+										<a
+											class="w3-button w3-round-large w3-blue w3-padding-large"
+											href="https://www.tildefriends.net/~core/ssb/"
+											>🦀 Try It</a
+										>
+									</p>
+									<p>
+										<a href="/login?return=/~core/intro"
+											>Register an account with tildefriends.net</a
+										>
+										to take it for a spin right away.
+									</p>
+								</div>
+								<div class="w3-container w3-cell">
+									<h3>Desktop</h3>
+									<p>
+										<a
+											class="w3-button w3-round-large w3-black w3-padding-large"
+											href="https://dev.tildefriends.net/cory/tildefriends/releases"
+											><i class="fa fa-download"></i> Download</a
+										>
+										<a
+											class="w3-button w3-round-large w3-padding w3-blue-gray"
+											href="https://dev.tildefriends.net/releases/tildefriends-x86_64.AppImage"
+										>
+											<img src="appimage.svg" style="height: 2em; margin: 0" />
+											Get Linux 64-bit AppImage
+										</a>
+									</p>
+									<p>
+										Tilde Friends is distributed as a single executable file (or
+										source that you can
+										<a href="http://dev.tildefriends.net">build yourself</a>)
+										and stores all of its data in a single
+										file(<code>db.sqlite</code>). You can generally download the
+										latest executable from
+										<a
+											href="https://dev.tildefriends.net/cory/tildefriends/releases"
+											>releases</a
+										>
+										for your platform, mark it as executable (<code
+											>chmod +x tildefriends*</code
+										>
+										on macOS and Linux), and run. Run with <code>-h</code> to
+										learn more.
+									</p>
+									<p>
+										Tilde Friends will run in the console and provide a web
+										interface at
+										<a href="http://localhost:12345/">http://localhost:12345/</a
+										>. You will have to register a username and password to sign
+										into your instance.
+									</p>
+								</div>
+							</div>
+							<p>
+								After a <a href="/~core/intro">brief introduction</a>, Tilde
+								Friends will take you to the Secure Scuttlebutt social network
+								app.
+							</p>
 						</li>
-						<li>Create an account to identify yourself with that instance.</li>
 						<li>
 							Describe yourself in your profile in the <b>ssb</b> app. Give
 							yourself a name and an avatar if you like.