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• Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Good UX is all about removing friction and making users have to click less and think less.

  Users these days are expect their hands to be held and things to just work, that sadly is just the reality.

  Let me start off with saying, I started on Lemmy and even donated to Lemmy, PieFed can only grow because it’s standing on the shoulders of giants (lemmy)

  My alt is AnonomousWolf, you can look it up, since I joined I complained about bat UX, but people told me to GTFO. PieFed fixes many of those issues I complained about.

  Let me do a quick test and walk you through my thought possesses and UX. I’ll make 2 comments in this post, one for lemmy.ml one for piefed.social

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  • Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Review of the two experiences:

    With PieFed I can just keep scrolling without needing to click. Things just work and are where I expect them to be (based on pas UX experiences (reddit)) I can see way more content without ever getting confused or needing to click or make decisions, making me stay curious and engaged. Where as with Lemmy I very quickly got frustrated and confused, making me want to abandon ship and do something else, and I’m way way way more resilient than the vast majority of users

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    • nutomic@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Not everyone likes infinite scroll, but some apps such as vger.app offer it.

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  • Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    – open https://piefed.social/ – met with some interesting image from c/selfhosted –keep scrolling – some news articles, not really my vibe – keep scrolling – cut cat picture from c/cat – keep scrolling

    – some meme about cars and fuck Trump, cool – keep scrolling – more memes and cats, keep scrolling – this keeps happening, doezens of more memes and cats – repeat

    – bunch of posts I don’t have to click to open, I can see the image clearly and what’s happening – interesting but I can just keep scrolling – bottom of the pace, have to click next – more semi interseting things – keep scrolling, click next again – eventually find something interesting enough to interact with and leave a comment, of move on.

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  • Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    open https://lemmy.ml met with a list of posts, most images too small for me to see or read. click on first post so that I can see the image - https://lemmy.ml/post/42503928 taken to a page where I still can’t see the image I clicked to see Click on the image, now I can see it. See some comments, now I need to click back to continue

    see another interesting post, image to small, can’t see so I have to click – https://lemmy.ml/post/42501566 Still can’t see image so I click on the image now I’m taken to https://mecha.so/comet#overview WTF, why am I on a different site? Why am I here,where are the comments Realisze I can’t distinguish between Image posts and Links to a different site. Why is this so confusing to browse?

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    • nutomic@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Sounds like you are specifically looking for a client focused on image browsing. In that case I would suggest linking to vger.app, phtn.app or blorp which I linked in another comment. Lemmy 1.0 will also have a card view which admins can set as default, where images are already expanded.

      see another interesting post, image to small, can’t see so I have to click – lemmy.ml/post/42501566

      This is only the link preview (indicated by the arrow icon), not an image post. Is the icon too small?

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