Is there a way to make the Click to Join bar on Public (Open Membership) groups more visible? For some reason a good portion of my new group members are missing this prompt.

Is there a way to make the Click to Join bar on Public (Open Membership) groups more visible? For some reason a good portion of my new group members are missing this prompt.

Yes the journey to 'join' a group is not intuitive to users at all.
What also trips up engagement is that all buttons for 'create blog' or 'new' or even commenting are completely hidden if the user hasn't joined the group.
Which is weird, because I would have expected the experience to be to show these things as a 'call to action' and then prompt the user to join the group upon trying to engage, and then informing the user as to what will happen when they join, and what joining entails and means.
Hey there Christopher G. Stanton - just to confirm one thing that may need to be adjusted on your site. In the Group - Banner widget, there is an option to show the New button to not logged in users:


which would then ask the user to sign in:

I hope this helps! Let us know if we can help you through getting this sorted. Thanks!