Introduce an experimental modal walkthrough for web experiences

[bhavyaus]

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[bhavyaus]

Related: #166895

[Mumduekndbn]

Duplicate of #

[Mumduekndbn]

#171190 (comment)

[bhavyaus]

Current Progress:

• We have enabled an experimental modal dialog to be used for gathering feedback.

• Previous studies conducted to test this feature have concluded that users often did not engage with a modal walkthrough.
  See Getting Started experience #106717 (comment)

• One of the issue we would need to address if we do decide to use welcome dialogs for web experiences is users encountering back-to-back modal dialogs - because GitHub Repositories triggers the modal dialog sign in flow for first-time users.

• Some of the ideas under consideration for this scenario are:

1. Surfacing the welcome information as a notification instead of modal dialog.
   

2. Sequentially surfacing the welcome modal followed by other setup modals to establish a "welcome flow" to get users to a ready state.

followed by

3. Incorporating setup modal actions (such as sign-in) as a part of the welcome dialog itself and have a singular blocking modal dialog.

4. An intermediate page before loading the actual app -
   

[bhavyaus]

We've completed our first round of user studies which has invalidated our hypothesis that a modal dialog is effective in instructing the user landing in a vscode web experience. Users were quick to dismiss the dialog and did not read the content. However, upon reflection, users admitted that they would have found that useful had they read it. Future iterations will explore surfacing this information in a more context sensitive manner.

[sandy081]

Moving this to next milestone as part of issue tracking and cleaning for the current milestone as we are close to the release.

[bhavyaus]

We've now added an experimental #179401 contextual welcome widget in the editor on the web for new users. We will monitor its usage to determine the usefulness of this model of interaction for welcome experiences on the web.

[bhavyaus]

We have rolled out a non modal experimental dialog. We will track the experiment metrics in the coming weeks.
see: #179401

[rzhao271]

Hi @bhavyaus, what are some verification steps for this issue?

[rzhao271]

Confirmed this issue is being tracked elsewhere now