Ollama: Smooth Onboarding for New Users
Jeffrey Morgan merged a thoughtful user experience improvement that ensures fresh Ollama installations run through proper onboarding before accessing the gateway. This change adds smart detection to check if users have completed the setup wizard and routes them appropriately, making the first-time experience much smoother.
Duration: PT3M39S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from Ollama.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Ollama
- Published: 2026-02-02T11:01:39Z
- Audio duration: PT3M39S
Transcript excerpt
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Hey there, amazing developers! Welcome back to another episode of the Ollama podcast. I'm your host, and wow, do I have some exciting updates to share with you today. Grab your favorite beverage because we're diving into some really thoughtful user experience improvements that landed in the codebase.
You know what I love most about today's update? It's all about making that first impression count. Jeffrey Morgan just merged a pull request that tackles something we've all experienced - that slightly confusing moment when you fire up a new tool for the first time and you're not quite sure what's supposed to happen…
So here's the story. The team identified that when someone installs Ollama fresh and launches OpenClaw, the system was jumping straight to the gateway without any setup. Imagine downloading a new app, opening it up, and being thrown into the deep end without any guidance. Not exactly the warm welcome we want to give…
Jeffrey's solution is beautifully simple and elegant. The new code adds a smart little function called "onboarded" that checks for a specific marker in the config - something called "wizard.lastRunAt." Think of it like a breadcrumb that says "hey, this person…
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