i recommend trying out thunder, I just switched from sync.
UX/UI are only as bad as the client is. For me, Lemmy is indistinguishable from reddit (if you don’t look at numbers of comments), because I use Lemmy Sync, as I used Reddit Sync before
communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 weeks ago
Kalothar@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I’m checking in with voyager here, and I came from the reddit Apollo app and I feel the same.
It was practically seamless, though I’ve considered switching to try out other clients.
Tried Piefed and find it clunky with my current level of familiarity
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I used Lemmy for months, mostly in the browser and my UX was absolutely horrible.
The default browser UI sucks.
I had to try many different settings and eventually through a lot of effort found the Photon UI, which is nice.
The vast majority of users just won’t go through that effort. PieFed’s default UI is quite clean and modern and much nicer to use.
nutomic@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
In what ways does the Lemmy UI suck? I would appreciate feedback in order to improve it. For what its worth I only use the default UI on desktop and mobile, and like it a lot.
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Any actions you need to take that could have been avoided = bad UX.
Any time you need to think and not immediately know what to do next = bad UX.
Sadly we’re in a time where users expect their hand to be held the whole time and where they expect zero effort to be put in and everything to just work.
For me the biggest issue with default Lemmy is, why do I have to click on a image post to view the image, when it could just have defaulted to a bigger size?
TechLich@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
But I don’t want a bunch of huge images in my face. Isn’t that what pixelfed and Instagramy things are for? I only want to click on the things I’m interested in, not be shown an ugly frustrating stream of giant, semi-traumatic political pictures one after the other. Thumbnails exist for a reason and claiming they’re bad UX is incorrect, it’s the industry standard design pattern for any control that allows a user to browse quickly through multiple images or to provide an impression to a user before they decide whether or not to open the full content.
Lemmie/piefed is more about text and conversations so titles should always be the largest clearest part so you can read them quickly to know whether you want to engage with the post or not. Otherwise, how is it different from pixelfed? Likes vs upvotes is not a big difference.
OccasionallyFeralya@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I don’t understand your problem. Can’t you just tap the image to see it larger? I don’t have to click an image post like you claim to.
anothermember@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
How long ago? It was a bit flaky a couple of years ago but for me now it’s perfect - like Reddit before it enshittified.
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I’m sorry but the default Lemmy UI is objectively bad, it breaks so many UX principles.
Photon is good, but go to Lemmy.world and it looks like a website built in the early 90’s
anothermember@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
If it looks like anything of the past then it looks like the web from 10-15 years ago pre-mass-enshittification, maybe people have forgotten what non user hostile websites look like.
Photon has infinite scrolling, which is horrible.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
I use the the apk called “Thunder” and it does a fantastic job. Much better than just using the website of here or reddit.
Calfpupa@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Okay then recommend Lemmy with PhotonUI?
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Too much friction, and that’s really bad UX.
And now you have to explain to people why the default UI sucks. I tried to promote https://p.lemmy.world to people, and they tell me to get lost with that dodgy virus link.
Xylight@lemdro.id 2 weeks ago
Don’t link p.lemmy.world. it’s well over a year out of date.
phtn.app probably looks a bit less suspicious, and also lets you use any Lemmy/Piefed instance.
myserverisdown@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s just fine. Don’t worry yourself too much. I don’t know about everyone else, but I only want the people open to making a switch here. If you’re so put off by trying something new that you aren’t willing to give it a chance, then I’m not going to be begging for you to join my community.
fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I honestly use the Voyager web client in my desktop PC, it works pretty well.
Broken@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I tried out a handful of Lemmy apps and Thunder is what I used for most of it but then switched to Summit. There’s aspects I like about both and aspects I dislike about both, but they don’t have a bad UI.