# Midjourney

Source: https://useronboarding.ai/companies/midjourney

- Category: Onboarding for AI products
- Type: Creative
- Product: https://www.midjourney.com

A case study in onboarding through someone else's platform: through 2023 new users signed in on midjourney.com, authorized a Discord bot, joined the Discord server, passed captchas and Discord's own community onboarding, then added the bot to a server before generating anything. The 2024 web app replaced this with an Explore feed of community images and an "Imagine…" prompt bar, initially gated behind prior Discord usage.

## Notes

- Faqprime's 2023 walkthrough counts 13 screens from landing page to "All set!": Sign In → Discord OAuth "Authorize" (Midjourney Bot requests username, email, server joins, etc.) → "Join the Discord to start creating!" → Accept Invite → captcha → Discord's "Start Onboarding" gate → find Midjourney Bot → Add to Server → select server → Continue → authorize → second captcha.
- The pre-Discord web dashboard's empty state was just a "Join the Discord to start creating!" link and "When you generate an image, it will appear here" — the website could not create, only display.
- Two separate captcha checks and a Discord-native "You must complete Onboarding to view this community" gate sit between sign-in and the first prompt.
- How-To Geek (May 19, 2024) reports the new web interface was first limited to users who had generated 1,000 images on Discord, then "lowered way down to only 100 images" — access to the easier onboarding was earned through the harder one.
- The web alpha opens on Explore (Random / Hot / Top Day / Likes tabs, a Randomize button, and a "Search prompts" box) with the "Imagine…" bar pinned at the top, so the first screen is a gallery of what's possible plus the input to try it; sidebar also offers Rate Images and Rate Ideas.
- Per How-To Geek, generation settings (size, aesthetics, model) hide behind the sliders icon next to the prompt rather than being asked up front.

## Patterns

third-party platform onboarding, OAuth authorize, captcha, community gallery as home, usage-gated access, empty state with next step

## Screens

- ![Discord OAuth screen asking the user to authorize Midjourney Bot's permissions](https://useronboarding.ai/images/midjourney-1.jpg) Discord OAuth screen asking the user to authorize Midjourney Bot's permissions (source: https://faqprime.com/en/onboarding-on-midjourney/)
- ![Web dashboard empty state: "Join the Discord to start creating!"](https://useronboarding.ai/images/midjourney-2.jpg) Web dashboard empty state: "Join the Discord to start creating!" (source: https://faqprime.com/en/onboarding-on-midjourney/)
- ![Inside the Midjourney Discord server: "You must complete Onboarding to view this community" with a Start Onboarding button](https://useronboarding.ai/images/midjourney-3.jpg) Inside the Midjourney Discord server: "You must complete Onboarding to view this community" with a Start Onboarding button (source: https://faqprime.com/en/onboarding-on-midjourney/)
- ![Adding Midjourney Bot to the user's own Discord server (server select step)](https://useronboarding.ai/images/midjourney-4.jpg) Adding Midjourney Bot to the user's own Discord server (server select step) (source: https://faqprime.com/en/onboarding-on-midjourney/)
- ![Midjourney web alpha: Explore feed with "Imagine…" bar, Search prompts, and Random/Hot/Top Day/Likes tabs](https://useronboarding.ai/images/midjourney-5.jpg) Midjourney web alpha: Explore feed with "Imagine…" bar, Search prompts, and Random/Hot/Top Day/Likes tabs (source: https://www.howtogeek.com/midjourney-now-has-web-interface-heres-how-to-use-it/)

## Articles

- [Onboarding on Midjourney](https://faqprime.com/en/onboarding-on-midjourney/): Faqprime (user flows)
- [Midjourney Now Has Web Interface, Here's How to Use It](https://www.howtogeek.com/midjourney-now-has-web-interface-heres-how-to-use-it/): How-To Geek

## Cited in

- [How do products solve the blank prompt box?](https://useronboarding.ai/questions#blank-box)
- [Signup first, or value first?](https://useronboarding.ai/questions#signup-timing)