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If you could, how would you improve lemmy? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by TimothyMcFuck@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I would a UX designer and force their feedback to be accepted. I've personally grown accustom to Lemmy's UI, but it took me way longer than most sites.

Communities having names and URLs misaligned is an antifeature
Creating a post requiring to subscribe first is an antifeature
UX rule of proximity has improved a lot over time actually, was going to write about this but all my complaints seem to be resolved
Lemmy UI is very customizable, but the default white and green theme sucks

Actually, the more I think about it, Lemmy's UX has improved a lot. Inbox used to be a nightmare, it works pretty great now.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

#2 is fixed in the next release btw.

What does #1 mean?

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Point 1 refers to the "Name" and "Display name". For example it's cumbersome to have cases like "Programmer Humor" pointing to "/c/programmerhumor" and "Lemmy Support" pointing to "/c/lemmy_support"

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That to me is a very necessary feature, for at least two reasons.

Internationalization: URLs are always latin chars, which would exclude any non-latin community or usernames.
More complex community names. You can see how ridiculous reddit community names can get, because they don't allow spaces or non-latin characters, in either community or usernames. Spaces specifically is a necessary one for both, and URLs wouldn't permit that.