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?

  • @HardlightCereal
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    61 year ago

    I definitely miss Reddit’s stylesheets. Giving mods control over the page’s CSS was just really neat. Everything had an individual flair

    • @Distributed
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      121 year ago

      Lol did people use reddit without turning off sub specific stylesheets?!

      • @teuast
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        51 year ago

        I left them on if they supported dark mode.

        Lemmy defaults to dark mode. Praise be to Lemmy.

      • @teuast
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        01 year ago

        deleted by creator

    • @dustyData
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      1 year ago

      Let’s not kid ourselves, some subs were awful. Few like mildly infuriating actually were creative with it and added to the experience. Others were crimes against design. I disabled them with RES globally and only activated a few select ones. Too many mods thought that red text over black background was a good idea. Then there were those who had a highlight effect on the selected comment and made the white text unreadable. Design is a Art.

      • @funkyb
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        61 year ago

        Yea I had it set to never use custom CSS, imo was much better that way.

    • candyman337
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      21 year ago

      Yeah there are a few requests on the lemmy GitHub for flairs