Do people actually like all of the overdesigned clutter to the point where it makes them not want to switch sites?

To me, the stripped down clarity on Lemmy is a feature. I remember back in the day when people flocked to Facebook from MySpace, in large part because they were sick of eye gouging customized pages and just wanted a simple, consistent interface. The content, not the buttons to click on it are the draw right?

    • McBinary
      4•2 years ago

      These are the most important ones I use.

      Kbin Enhancement Script User: @SirPsychoMantis

      • Add domains to magazines and users for federated content
      • Collapse comments
      • Collapse replies
      • Replies start collapsed
      • Move comment box to top
      • Fix comment buttons and add a cancel button
      • Blur / Hide NSFW domains (thanks to u/le__el)
      • Hide random posts
      • OP tag in comments
      • All features can be toggled on and off

      Improved Collapsible Comments User: @artillect

      • Improves the comment tree layout and adds a line that lets you collapse replies

      Floating Subs List User: @raltsm4k

      • Adds a floating subscriptions pane to kbin similar to Reddit
      • Supports filtering by name and sorting by subscribe date (default) or alphabetically

      Kbin-Unsquash User: @shazbot

      • Unsquash inline images in threads by replacing with source image and downscaling to 50%
    • @Limeey
      3•2 years ago

      I’m using the compact version of lemmy_monkey and a script I wrote to force external links to open in new tabs (reddit did this automatically so I constantly forget to press the middle mouse button and then get annoyed that my lemmy scrolling is gone)

      Compact lemmy_monkey: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469093-compact-lemmy-to-old-reddit-re-format-observer GM-Open-NewTab: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469196-gm-lemmy-newtab

      Both observe on all http*:/// but they both use the same “isLemmy” check to determine if any logic should actually execute, so while it seems a bit rough at first they are not doing anything nefarious or unnecessary besides a single js comparison of the head elements.