Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy
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There's quite a few things we can do to improve the experience in the current default.
Eg. by optimising it's defaults, turning 'Auto expand media' on makes it a much smoother transition for people, and makes the site look more modern and not like a forum from 15 years ago.
The reality is, our UX is bad else top comments in the post I shared wouldn't look like that, and something needs to be done about it
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What proportion of the potential new joiners are going to use the web UI compared to an app like Sync, Thunder or Arctic?
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Agreed. I really like the default UI personally but I know it's not exactly the most new-user-friendly and modern. There is also tesseract: https://tesseract.dubvee.org/communities/lemmy.world
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It might not be a bad experience for you, but it's a bad experience for what looks like the vast majority of people.
Don't take my word for it, look at the hundreds of upvotes in the post I shared. -
If the UI is the problem, the lemmy devs are working on a more modern looking UI using daisyUI atm.
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We already have good information, the barrier to entry just needs to be lowered
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That's how you create a bubble of only tech savvy people.
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It's on a Bluesky community, there's a serious bias in those votes
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https://old.lemmy.world/ looks just like reddit. It's not the UI. It's network effect and there's not a lot to be done.
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I disagree. I'm an ex tech guy, and I found it to be a pain in the ass. I really appreciate everything that everyone here does, but it's empty enough that I recognize a number of users. The average person isn't signing up. At 50k active users, our voice is small.
I don't know what the grand vision is, but if it's to provide the people with a corporate free perform, there needs to be... The People.
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Not many I'm assuming. I like pointing people to Voyager because it's both on android and apple, and it has a very smooth UX, you can install and start scrolling
My message is often something like
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Checkout Lemmy, it's a solid reddit alternative.
https://phtn.app/If you want a mobile app: https://vger.app/settings/install
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Be careful that IIRC Reddit blocked the phtn URL and would automatically remove comments mentioning it.
Not sure if it's still the case now, but just a warning.
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The vast majority of users don't like the old.reddit view, else reddit would have that as default.
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Yes exactly!!
