• chobeat
    10·
    2 years ago

    better cross-instance user experience. Like now if you want to post to another instance you have to use the search bar and pray, right? Or is there a better way? If there’s a better way, I couldn’t find it. In general more streamlined “community discovery” features.

  • OsrsNeedsF2P
    8·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • DessalinesA
      1·
      2 years ago

      #2 is fixed in the next release btw.

      What does #1 mean?

      • OsrsNeedsF2P
        1·
        2 years ago

        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”

        • DessalinesA
          3·
          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.
    • ottergauze
      72·
      2 years ago

      Listen, I understand people’s viewpoints on this but I’d much rather have the website be “Fuck nazis” far-left than “I want to murder people because of their ethnicity” far-right. Anything other than that is complacent towards some hateful shit.

        • NXL
          51·
          2 years ago

          The issue comes from the authoritarians who think their authorianism is great because its done under a flag they like.

          i.e. people will completely deny uyghur genocide happening, or the fact the Putin is fascist as fuck and has been running a christian nationalist regime for decades.

          Its obvious their beliefs dont come from love of their people like the Black Panthers focused on. Their beliefs comes from hate so anything that makes the countries that are anti-west look bad they will deny or try to spin it and say its actually a good thing.

          They essentially run from one oppressor to another instead of understanding all the superpowers are run by people who dont care about the citizens. Nuance and compassion are important but instead they want to believe everything anything remotely anti-west is good and true and anything else is propaganda. Theyre like average redditors who will complain about tiktok being spyware because it’s a company from China and should be deleted while seeing no problem with Google’s spyware OS and apps.

      • Tatar_Nobility
        4·
        2 years ago

        Lemmy.ml or all of lemmy?

        If you mean the former, through my experience chatting with folks here, lemmy.ml is mixed and diverse since most newcomers sign up there instead of browsing through other instances (probably because it’s most active but that doesn’t matter since there’s federation). However, lemmy.ml is officially leftist as the sidebar states (something controversial and witnessed many debates).

        Regarding the latter, while lemmy can be said to be not in favor of a specific ideology since the present instances are from all sides of the political spectrum. There are as well instances that aren’t attached to a political ideology which is something to be encouraged on the website. The admins (also mods of lemmy.ml) have explicitly declared their leftist sentiments but outside of lemmy.ml I see no issue with that.

        • OsrsNeedsF2P
          21·
          2 years ago

          There’s some far-left takes on Lemmy for sure. Not that there’s anything inherently wrong with that, but it does limit growth when Lemmy.ml, which ultimately is the main instance, advertises it.