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

• 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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      • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I guess so. Every Lemmy app I’ve used also offers similar views.

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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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      • jasep@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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      • nutomic@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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      • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You’re thinking like a designer for a slick, centralised, profit-and-growth-seeking company (no shade, I’m guessing that thinking literally makes you good at your job). The fediverse is entirely about choice; if different instances want to have a different default look and feel then that’s great and new users can pick one they like the look of, but insisting that everyone should have the one that you think is best isn’t a meaningful or helpful change.

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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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