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

• 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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    • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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      • Lojcs@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You seem to be doing the same? Majority of reddit users are younger than op. People who use old reddit are objectively the minority

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      • AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Look I don’t have any data to back it up, only my experience and many others (eg. lemmy.ca/comment/14524858)

        I’m also not going to go try and dig up all the evidence to try and prove this to you. I am a IT professional and have been part of developing many web apps that see tens of thousands of users per day. We would do AB testing to see what works for users and what gets a better click through rate etc.

        As soon as a user needs to think, they drop off like crazy, that’s just a fact you can look up good UX design. It’s also a fact that joining lemmy requires a lot of thinking and tweaking etc. to get to a good place.

        I’ve been using lemmy for months now, and I’m still not happy with the UI even after tweaking and trying many different things.

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    • nutomic@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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      • AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        We could do AB testing and see what users prefer.

        Or at least change the Default Ui to adhere to good UX design principles

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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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      • AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m not saying everyone should have the one I think is best.

        I’ve said many times I don’t have the solution, it’s just painfully obvious that what we have now sucks. (goes against basic UX principles)

        I’m saying the instances that care about not filtering out non tech savvy people, and that want to attract more users, should care and put some effort into this.

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      • AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You’re taking zero choice away from people, All I’m asking for is better defaults and guidance

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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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