Homepage update

Hi all,

We’ve just shipped an updated homepage, and we’d love your thoughts.

What changed and why:

  • The old homepage often felt empty — first-time users found little content there, and returning users didn’t see much that helped them pick up where they left off.

  • People also told us they were getting lost: “where’s that test app from the email?”, “how do I get back to the app I was building?”

What’s new:

  • A Building section with a “Create new app” entry point and example prompts to help you get started. Once you’ve created apps, your apps show up here too.

  • A Using / Projects section with a Recents list that mixes recently used apps in projects and test apps, so you can jump straight back in.

  • A For you section with information about the platform (not yet tailored to your discipline — that’s coming later).

  • Content that adapts to where you are: first-time users see prompts and accessible projects; returning users see their apps and recents.

Where are we heading next:

  • Improving recents or adding favorites

  • An activity/notification feed

  • Personalized recommendations based on role/discipline

These are on our radar for follow-up work.

We’d love to hear from you:

  • Does the new homepage help you find what you need faster?

  • Is anything missing that you’d expect to see there?

  • For returning users — does Recents surface the right things?

Drop your thoughts below — your feedback directly shapes where we take this next.

To be honest I think doesn’t add anything (for me), if something it adds a lot of noise to the home page.

E.g. is it possible to remove (or hide) the For you part? For experienced users it is a lot of noise which you are typically not interested in, it feels like an advertisement banner which I do not like. I like to have a clean work focused view. This is a distraction.

Also the ‘building’ section doesn’t add anything (again for me), it is much more straightforward to click the link that is included after viktor-cli start.

the Using/Projects section is still the same, which renders down to this discussion: Recent Apps - Workspaces or better Projects? - Feature Requests - VIKTOR Community

I’m very much on the same page as Wichard. I don’t see the real improvement for our users who are for 99% not Viktor developers nor they wish to be.

We really want to decide ourselves what elements to show to our users. Viktor marketing/banners/how-to video’s and such are not welcome there. Sadly we still haven’t been able to remove those.

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