Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months agoI personally see three big issues with getting new users to Lemmy use and stat on Lemmy:
- knowing about it: It is a matter of time before Reddit bans linking to Lemmy. Either by outright preventing their discussion via shadow deletes or full deletes. join-lemmy.org would be well served by purchasing ads on Google and on Bing
- join-lemmy ux needs to be improved: this goes to your point and I fully agree that there needs to be a better onboarding experience. I am a fairly technical guy and even I had trouble understanding the major concepts behind Lemmy. Many of these concepts aren’t terribly important to a new user though. At least at first.
- more and better content: this is fortunately getting better but we’re not there yet
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Join-lemmy provides a subpar experience: lemmy.world/post/24220536
nutomic@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Pull requests are more than welcome to improve the site. Its basic Typescript, TailwindCSS and Inferno.
github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site
You can also make changes to the documentation, its markdown just like Lemmy itself. So if you would write something differently then open a pull request and change it!
github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-docs
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Thanks for reminding.
I’m more busy on !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com at the moment but I might give it a go at some point.
Just seems strange to have so many people wanting to fix this in this thread without actually acting
nutomic@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Exactly it seems most people here still didn’t realize that this is an open source project run by volunteers, not a corporation with countless employees and a profit motive. If people want something to get done then it’s best they start doing it themselves.