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Today marks my first day on lemmy after leaving Reddit after 3 years, I already like the platform I just wish their was a mobile app, and wish the mobile web support was a bit more polished but i understand it’s still in it’s earlier stages

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
    9•4 years ago

    I find the new Reddit redesign to be strictly worse, and it’s also Js heavy. I expect that eventually they’ll get rid of the original design since it’s a maintenance cost. I also find the way Reddit handles media is pretty annoying. It makes it difficult to download it for one. It’s also not possible to put media in comments.

    • @mishuri
      6•4 years ago

      I expect that eventually they’ll get rid of the original design since it’s a maintenance cost

      Good, just wait for lemmy’s federation support and then they’ll be signing their own gravestone 😆
      People have been itching to leave reddit since redesign now.

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
        4•4 years ago

        Yeah, once the old UI goes away I can’t see myself using Reddit. I do think Lemmy is a natural alternative since it has a very similar UX to the old Reddit. I’m pretty excited about federation as well, looks like it’s pretty far along at this point.

    • Ephera
      2•4 years ago

      I mean, the redesign does work better on mobile. Except that it constantly tries to get you to use their app. And they’ve been doing bullshit, like not letting you view random subreddits without logging in.

    • @AgreeableLandscape
      1•4 years ago

      Reddit has said that they plan on continuing to provide the old design, take that how you will. However, they did point out that really old clients like i.reddit.com and the old alien blue app still work even if it’s not being developed any more.

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
        1•4 years ago

        It’ll likely depend on the ratio of the users that go to the old style compared to the cost of maintenance.

        • @AgreeableLandscape
          0•4 years ago

          Why is why I mentioned alien blue and i.reddit.com. They’re both really old at this point and I doubt a lot of people use them, but they can at least still access the site. To their creddit (ba dum tss), Reddit does seem to have a lot of backwards compatibility. I have also never heard of an old third party Reddit client suddenly breaking because Reddit changed their API, like is a problem with YouTube for example.

          • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
            2•4 years ago

            Yeah, I use Slide and it works pretty well. I do agree that Reddit actually has a pretty decent API that’s stayed stable over the years.