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

• madjo@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How old are those friends of yours?

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    • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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      • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Isn't the "tiling" view on PieFed like that? Link

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      • AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m 32 and work in tech, The reality is the vast majority of people won’t want to use old.reddit style UI

        I’m comfortable powering through shitty UI/UX etc. I’ve even built them myself, but others won’t settle for shitty UI

        You and your friends are old I assume, and got used to the old.reddit UI, and didn’t want to change.

        Most people are used to modern UI, and won’t want to change to old UI, just like you don’t want to change either. We should better cater for average people.

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    • Rokin@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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