# How Nextcloud designed signup for decentralization

**URL:** <https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/how-nextcloud-designed-signup-for-decentralization/2019>\
**Category:** Interaction design\
**Created:** [September 14, 2020, 12:01pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/how-nextcloud-designed-signup-for-decentralization/2019 "2020-09-14T12:01:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![jan](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/jan/32/8_2.png) [@jan](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/jan)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2020, 12:01pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/how-nextcloud-designed-signup-for-decentralization/2019/1 "2020-09-14T12:01:32Z")

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Wanted to write about this for some time now, finally published about how we designed our signup flow for [Nextcloud](https://nextcloud.com) considering it is open source and decentralized.

I think there’s a bunch of good learnings in there which other decentralized projects could pick up, especially since some of them already do something similar but not quite the same. 🙂

> **[How Nextcloud simplified the signup process for decentralization](https://opensource.com/article/20/9/decentralization-signup)**
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> We always had a nice list of dozens of Nextcloud providers, yet the most common question I heard, even from technically apt friends of mine, was: "Hi, Jan, umm…so, which Nextcloud provider do you recommend?" Which is, of course, understandable. If...

Also a Tweet and Mastodon post if you want to share & like 🙂

- Twitter [https://twitter.com/jancborchardt/status/1305472266126405632](https://twitter.com/jancborchardt/status/1305472266126405632)
- Mastodon [https://mastodon.social/@jancborchardt/104863134957714055](https://mastodon.social/@jancborchardt/104863134957714055)

Also cc @bumbleblue since I remember we talked about this some time ago, possibly at CCC? Might be an interesting design pattern for the [https://decentpatterns.xyz](https://decentpatterns.xyz) design patterns library?