Comment on Defaults are crucial for good UX and getting more users on the Fediverse

• Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s something I’ve raised with the other Admins and we may see if our users would be up for swapping the default frontend to one of the others.

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• TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I am almost certainly not the “normal” user, but the default theme is much better usability wise than the “p” version. The one would have me looking for an alternative UI/app.

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  • AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I get that, but we need to cater for the massss if we want to see lemmy grow

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    • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Why do we need to change what current users already like to attract some theoretical new user that might want a dumbed-down view? This is starting to sound like infinite-growth corpo speak!

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      • Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        There’s a lot of margin between 47k monthly active users and infinite growth

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• smeg@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What makes you think it sucks? That’s just your opinion, do you mainly just look at image posts? Personally I prefer posts being collapsed by default so I can scroll through and find the interesting ones. Arbitrarily setting one thing as the default is just as bad as setting another.

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  • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Years ago I did a UX study on Lemmy’s frontend, and tbh not much has changed since. Things like when editing a thread, the Save button is multiple proximity separators apart from the text you’re editing, making it very easy to missclick cancel. Or in the community search, you can’t search on specific instances that aren’t yours.

    I’ve gotten very used to the UI over time but it definitely needs a “pain point” passover

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    • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I always use an app so I barely interact with the web ui

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      • TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Same here for 99% of the time, Sync for Lemmy is how I see and prefer this type of site.

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