Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy

solrize@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  People are still on Twitter while the owner makes Nazi salutes and Bluesky is a 1:1 replacement feature-wise with a modern interface. People just don’t like to move.

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  • amju_wolf@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The fact that Bluesky is almost a 1:1 copy (which includes the dumb stuff like post character limit) is precisely why I don’t like it.

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• AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The vast majority of users don’t like the old.reddit view, else reddit would have that as default.

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  • madjo@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It was the default for a very long time. Reddit changed that because it prevented them from monetizing the site that easily. And the admins seemed to dislike what RES could do with the old Reddit look.

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  • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Are you suggesting that businesses only change things based on what their users want? Because that’s obviously nonsense. Enshitification finds a way regardless of what the consumer wants.

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    • AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Two things can be true at the same time.

      Yes reddit doesn’t care about their users.

      But also the old reddit is worse for the vast majority of people

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  • Rokin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I have friends who still only use old.reddit and refuse to switch to new UI.

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    • blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      This is me. Frankly, I’m surprised people are choosing to use the new UI, but I guess maybe they only discovered reddit when it had the new UI.

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    • Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Would they be interested in Lemmy? Them using old.reddit shows that they would probably like it here

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      • Rokin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I already tried getting them on. Maybe old.lemmy.world can help.

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    • AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      How old are those friends of yours?

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      • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        How old are you, out of interest? Your posts in your similar thread about default viewing experience makes it seem like you want an Instagram-style image browser rather than the link aggregator which Reddit and Lemmy actually are.

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      • Rokin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I mean… old (it’s in the name). Does it matter? What’s your point?

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