EVERYBODY NEW Don't believe me? Then you haven't seen the right tutorials. Since Day 1, the landing page for Dropbox has had a nice, short video about why you should bother with Dropbox. Granted - Dropbox is more of a commitment than Hubski. You get more real-world functionality out of it. So a 2-minute video? Probably not. That's why I said 30 seconds. So tutorials are a bad idea, but if they were a good idea, they already exist, but they should probably be redone except for the fact that they're a bad idea. The initial Hubski user experience in a nutshell, ladies and gentlemen. IN MY OPINION A new user should, upon creating their account, be taken to the comments section of whatever post they were looking at when they signed up. They should be auto-subscribed to the user that posted that post and whatever tags that post has been tagged with. Their top bar should be a "training mode" bar that gives useful hovertext for what every icon does and suggest they click on their name to set things up. The only tags they should be subscribed to are the ones previously mentioned and "#Imnewhere" (which is what Diaspora recommended - I thought it was a good idea, albeit poorly implemented). #Imnewhere should have certain "sticky" posts to get people acquainted with the navigation while using the navigation. As it is now, Hubski suggests following "popular" users and "popular" tags - which has an exponential effect. Keep that up and this place is going to permanently ensconce the popular users now as the popular users forever. Instead, point people to the top bar and suggest they browse around to find things that interest them. That's how you populate a "new" page. IN MY OPINION.Serious question, how many people are likely to click on a video tutorial?
By the way, I'm of the opinion that these tutorials are pretty shitty, and not optimally placed and could definitely be done in a better way.