I hate the damage that Apple seems to have done in this regard. I also hate it when apps hide features because “they’re for power users and regular users won’t understand them”.

Sure, there’s a difference between UX being so bad that it’s frustrating to use and “we need to simplify things because we don’t want to scare the users”.

Lemmy UI has its problems to solve and features to add, but it’s not bad, even on mobile. I’ve been using it extensively and it does fine all things considered.

Anyways, at this point I believe there’s even a benefit to making a UI a bit ugly and scary, so you end up with a higher quality of users instead of quantity, as cold as it might sound.

Edit: I didn’t mean to just talk about Lemmy. That was just an example and I understand that for a social platform numbers are important. My rant was more general in regards to the dumbing down of UI in all areas.

Edit2: I’m sorry. I didn’t want to come off as elitist. I’m actually concerned about the loss of power user features more than non-tech savvy users having a bad time.

  • li10English
    39·
    2 years ago

    Lemmy needs all the users it can get imo.

    If we start taking a “well, we don’t want those people” stance, then it’s going to fizzle out.

    And it’s all well and good people saying “I don’t want an overly large community!”, but you need frequent activity or it’s not a real community.

    A community with say five posts a day and four active commenters is essentially dead.

    • Tatar_NobilityEnglish
      183·
      2 years ago

      Five posts a day isn’t bad as you put it. You’ve been for years overstimulated by Reddit’s abundant content. Many of us have been contributing to lemmy perfectly fine; we see reccurent usernames and profile pictures, we grow compassionate and sincere with each others thanks to this familiarity.

      Not everything should keep on mindlessly growing. Not growing fast enough isn’t a problem, yet our modern, capitalist lifestyles make it seem so. That said, I am not against lemmy’s ongoing growth per se.

      • taladar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        The same is true for comments too. You don’t really need every statement repeated five times in a 500 comment comment section. Once would be fine too.