It doesn't match reddit yet but it's alright
this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2023
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What lemmy instance should I use? I registered lemmy.ml but I heard itβs very political. Should I change?
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I greatly dislike the UI. Makes for a bad UX.
Unfortunately, the UI source is not approachable to me (despite being very familiar with web tech). Theming documentation is not there yet either.
As far as content goes, it's still niche, so amount and usefulness varies a lot between communities and overall. But I've liked it in principle, posted comments, and found interesting links/infos.
I'm curious what your problems with the UI are? To me it's pretty close to old reddit.
Everything is small with many things without focus for obviousness.
On comments I want a vertical bar like on reddit to both see vertical thread relation and to be able to collapse it from anywhere in the thread. Instead I have to navigate to the top, locate and press visually the weak collapse button.
On post listings images thumbnails are too small, and the post has no direct link to the image. (On Reddit I hover over the image link and see the full image. The in-page preview/view specifically is a browser extension though.)
I am not using old Reddit design. I like being able to open a post, and at the end close it (click to the side of it) and be back to the listing. On Lemmy I have to work with tabs or back navigation.
On the listing the info I am secondarily interested in (after the headline or image) are not obvious. Community icons are [often] less useful than the community names. Weblinks are small and greyed out as if they were unimportant/aside when it's the primary content of the post.
Comment upvote and downvote should be to the side, like on posts. That'd be more obvious and visually consistent. Red on downvote I find irritating. As if it were a highlight color. Reply action is not distinct enough - goes under between the other buttons.
Notifications and their linking, marking read, and toolbar are a mess too.
Dropdown for reply language selection is suboptimal to say the least.
Edit should be a primary toolbar action. Not hidden within a collapsed section. Only half the horizontal space is used even when expanded. But then visual separation is missing again between the different types of actions.
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I'm enjoying my time on the fediverse, still getting used to it all
My biggest complaints are all UI based. I wish the UI felt a bit less crowded, and there was a setting that would instead load up pages that don't auto-update.
Overall it looks promising. Upgrading however from 0.17.y to 0.18.0 went unsuccessful for me. Ended up simply starting over from scratch. Thankfully the instance did not have any noticeable content anyways yet so the only thing lost were two days of headache. I am looking forward to get it more reliable since potential is certainly there.
Cheers
Why could you not keep the instance going from 0.17.x to 0.18.x?
It's worked fine here and now I'm on 0.18.1-rc4 and rc.7 for UI. All gone seamlessly
I assume there was some random regression introduced with 0.18.0 which has been fixed in one of the newer 0.18.1-rc pre-releases but not sure.
I'm pretty inpressed with how much everything is improving in such a short time frame. Feeling optimistic.
Seems interesting, UX could be a lot better (Logging in via jerboa app is hidden behind 2 seperate menus for example).
Main issue is lack of content so far but honestly that is probably just me learning how to use it and subscribe to what I want. 3 pages deep into "Hot" and about 2 of those pages consist of posts from one....instance? Sub Instance? whatever we call them :D
Also probably my own limitation for now, but the constant refreshing of pages is annoying, if I stop to read a post and go back, everything scrolls automatically, depending on time spent on post I could completely lose where I was.
Overall, I unfortunately think its not a threat to Reddit in its current state, it takes too much effort to understand what is going on for most people and even if the features I complained about above are avoidable it should not take effort or experience to figure out how, but I will stick around anyway, as it seems fun. I would think a lot of users will migrate back to Reddit after the blackout.
The logging in confused me too. When I'm accidentally not logged in things don't load very well either.
Reddit has such a huge community and so much existing content that it'll take a lot to be a threat to that aspect of it, but I don't think that should be (or needs to be) the goal, short or midterm anyway. It can fill a more niche market for now and grow from there.
My biggest issue for now is that it feels kinda empty for now. I hope it will pop just a bit more so that we have good content regularly