I keep hearing of people who have used Lemmy for a few days or a few weeks and want to start using a mobile version – often Voyager.
They open Voyager for the first time, and get a screen with a button for logging in. They get a choice for which Lemmy instance to join, but no place for entering their existing username or password.
I’ve told them that “in the first screen there is a button that is very difficult to notice, allowing you to use a pre-existing Lemmy username. Find that semi-hidden button, click it, and you can login.”
It is of course a working workaround to pre-emptively tell people that the button exists, is just very well hidden, and needs to be clicked by most people who download Voyager. But still, it would be cool if the screen for new users could be altered so that the ability to log in with a pre-existing username was equally visible as the choice to create a new account!
Well, I accidentally deleted my original comment. So, this is the short version. Take a look at Eternity or Jerboa and consider if the left panel slider with a user id button at top would be a good option.
As for my experience, a year after the original post, I don’t get a screen with the choices I see below. I’m immediately dumped into the “posts” tab/panel. None of the tabs give any indication of a way to login. I get the join screen only after I try to go to my inbox. To me, this is a UX “surprise”, and then I got the screen below, and the “log in button” looks more like a label. Perhaps it’s my ADHD, but I did not even see it until I saw it raised here that this is a button. I’m glad I found this post.