Defaults are crucial for good UX and getting more users on the Fediverse
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Feel free to crosspost to [email protected], it's a community dedicated to promote Lemmy and make it more welcoming to new joiners, so your post would fit right in!
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Thank you, I will do that and join their cause
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You would still have control over it. It would just remove a barrier to entry.
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Personally I find the UX better on PieFed (unless it's for a part where most of the development hasn't happened yet, so yeah it's hit or miss). See e.g. the tiling view.
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Nothing you can really do about preventing someone from looking at your posts unless you make your profile private, and I don't think Lemmy has that concept.
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Can you explain?
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While this is of course true (and I too have professional experience in this field), my own experience is the opposite. The UX and defaults here are generally better than on, for example, the R-site.
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That's the problem yes, but we can make small changes that will have a huge impact.
It's a very easy change to default 'Auto expand media' to true for half of new users, and see what effect it has over a few months.
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I would suggest something like https://phtn.app/ as an alternative desktop frontend (also has mobile view support)
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Not a lot of thought was put into selecting the defaults, all I'm saying is at the very least we should put thought into the defaults that are set.
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Isn't there a new UI in the works for the 1.0 release anyways?
