Comment on Is there any interest in SDF hosting MLMYM front end for Lemmy
KonQuesting@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
The default Lemmy interface already combines everything good about old.reddit’s design with additional quality of life features, faster performance, and Fediverse-oriented functionality.
No, I do not want to use an old.reddit clone. Lemmy is already better and can be further improved by the community itself. We should be encouraging newcomers to embrace innovation, not encouraging them to go back to Reddit.
scroll_responsibly@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
I had meant in addition to the regular Lemmy UI as something cool for people to use if they want to… not force everyone to use it 🤣. When I tested lemmy.world vs old.lemmy.world just now, respectively, I got 14.31 seconds vs 6.98 seconds with 32 requests each and 1.5MB vs 4.8 MB transferred (all this was done un-cached in Chromium). So on my end, old is heavier, but also more faster.
Regardless, I just think that the old front-end is cool and retro looking, and I was wondering if others here thought the same or not.