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 year agoI have friends who still only use old.reddit and refuse to switch to new UI.
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Rokin@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I already tried getting them on. Maybe old.lemmy.world can help.
AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee 1 year ago
How old are those friends of yours?
smeg@feddit.uk 1 year ago
[deleted]OpenStars@piefed.social 1 year ago
smeg@feddit.uk 1 year ago
I guess so. Every Lemmy app I’ve used also offers similar views.
AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee 1 year 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.
jasep@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You seem to be conflating “the vast majority” and “people my age”. They are not the same.
You’re also making a lot of global UX preference claims in this thread without sources or data to back them up.
nutomic@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Thats funny, Im also 32 and completely happy with the default Lemmy UI. Definitely wouldnt use something like new Reddit. But the good thing is that there are so many different choices, and its possible to create instances with a different default UI.
Rokin@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I mean… old (it’s in the name). Does it matter? What’s your point?
blackn1ght@feddit.uk 1 year 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.