If the UI is the problem, the lemmy devs are working on a more modern looking UI using daisyUI atm.
Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy
AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Lemmy has good UI, the defaults set are just bad and most people will give up before discovering Photon etc.
Something like phtn.app really should be the default
asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 2 weeks ago
Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Agreed. I really like the default UI personally but I know it’s not exactly the most new-user-friendly and modern. There is also tesseract: tesseract.dubvee.org/communities/lemmy.world
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Disclaimer: Photon is great and the dev does a fantastic job.
However, there as still issues induced by not using the default UI. One of the instances I used added photon as p.instance for a while
Photon was still in early stages, and there was a bug preventing it to load for some people (Firefox users IIRC). In the end the admin switched to Tesseract.
lemdro.id has photon as a Default, but it took them a while to the latest version, for quite some time it wasn’t ideal. I would still go to l.lemdro.id just because the Comments view was available, or because some other info was missing/hidden.
Lemmy releases new versions quite regularly, and there are usually a few bugs. Photon development is independent, and the Photon dev has to catch-up with those. Add admins sometimes limited availability to the mix and the experience can really become subpar.
Suoko@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
Super ui! Kudos