This reddit post likely has tens if not hundreds of thousands of views, look at the top comment.

Lemmy is losing so many potential new users because the UX sucks for the vast majority of people.

What can we do?

  • @[email protected]English
    15•5 days ago

    I feel like most the old school redditors have long migrated, I’ve only ever heard good things about the new UI from relatively new users.

    Lemmy is old reddit, if not OG internet ethos.

    • OtterEnglish
      9•5 days ago

      New Reddit gets a lot of complaints too (loading issues, freezing), but it’s aimed at Reddit as a whole since newer users don’t know that old Reddit is an option.

      At the same time, if I only ever used new Reddit, I would also think that old Reddit looks wrong

    • Amju WolfEnglish
      2•5 days ago

      I’m an OG user and other than technical issues (most of which have been figured it by now) I prefered both the original redesign and the newest one (though I did like the previous one more, I think).

      If you get used to the fact that it’s just a bit different it’s perfectly fine and actually looks better. Especially since it has dark mode.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•4 days ago

        I tried, but I like information density and the new UI is a horrible waste of space. I get why people like it and it’s way more modern, I’m saying loads of people who used reddit from the start will probably never get used to the new UI, mostly because of the customizability and open API.

        Reddit didn’t have apps in the beginning, so we made them over the years perfecting the UI. I settled on baconreader with a compact view, but it and so many others died when the API was purged. I patched my app and can still use it to this day, but I don’t because fuck them.

        • Amju WolfEnglish
          2•3 days ago

          Oh yeah absolutely the app purge is why I’m here. I absolutely despise their mobile app; but on desktop I don’t mind.

          The information density isn’t that important to me on desktop since my screen is plenty large and scrolling (or collapsing) comments is easy.