• @OsrsNeedsF2P
    8•3 years ago

    As an end user, the backend feels great (no clunky errors like Reddit or Ruqqus), but the UI has issues. I think if the goal is more (active) users, UI improvements are the lowest hanging fruits to get there.

    • @uthredii
      7•3 years ago

      imo the UI feels much cleaner than the new reddit UI and much more modern that the old reddit UI. I would like to be see some kind of compact mode though, especially for mobile.

      • DessalinesA
        5•3 years ago

        I’m def up for seeing ideas / ways I could tweak the layout to make it more clean and compact. I’m not really a UI person, outside of just copying the styles of my favorite apps… like this UI is modeled mostly after boost for reddit.

        • @uthredii
          4•3 years ago

          I mainly use redreader for Reddit, I don’t think I have ever used boost. I like it and find it easy/simple to use.

          It has a main menu, where you can select the community.

          Here is what it looks like.

          Main menu/front page:

          R/all:

          R/Linux

          Hamburger menu options:

          Sort menu options:

          • @leanleft
            4•3 years ago

            i’m sure you could fork the source code and adapt it to lemmy :)
            saidit did this and it looks like it would be simple.

      • @Adda
        3•3 years ago

        I have never thought about this, but now that you mention it, I could see a compact mode being a nice addition. Yeah, I think you are right. I have no problems whatsoever with the current mode, but there is a lot of free space around that could be potentially shrunken for a pretty compact UI.

          • @Adda
            2•3 years ago

            Thanks for the heads-up. Yes, that is exactly what I am talking about. Would be nice to have an option to have something compact like this.

      • CarrotsHaveEars
        2•3 years ago

        There was compact mode. Add .compact to the end of URL. Not sure if it’s still alive though.

    • TmpodM
      6•3 years ago

      Yeah for sure the UI needs some improvements. The moderation actions are really awkward (they are weirdly positioned text, and the reason boxes are not well aligned either; also you can’t uncollapse them), on mobile the icons search, notifications and all that are vertically distributed instead of horizontally, comments are not marked as read when replied to, the search bar sometimes doesn’t expand properly, when searching remote stuff I almost always have to go forwards and backwards a page for it to show up, on mobile the community’s sidebar shows between post content and the sorting options, etc

      Now that I think of it, I really should open issues for all this hehe