Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy
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99% of users are going to check out when you ask which server they want to join
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In their defense, the reddit UI did suck and the webpage was barely functional for a very, very long time. How many years did it take them to get video to be even passably functional?
Almost every Lemmy interface is an order of magnitude better than anything reddit has ever managed to produce. Voyager is a pleasure imo.
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Likewise, lol. A little friction keeps the chaff out.
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It's closer to that yes, and you don't really know whar a football team is
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Yeah like. I want a large community and stuff but. The idea of a new Reddit preferring community is weirdly repellent.
I really don’t want to hate on their preferences but also holy shit.
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That would help if they had a clue which one was near them.
Default to "nearest" one?
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We could do AB testing and see what users prefer.
Or at least change the Default Ui to adhere to good UX design principles
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You don't have to AB test all instances, we can do smaller tests.
But yea that's complicated and takes effort, instead we should at least follow good UX design principles for the default UX
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The majority wants better UX (look at up vote ratio of comments)
A fair amount of users want to gatekeep lemmy to only tech savvy people.
BeCaUsE fUcK dUmB NoRmIeS WhO CaNt FiGuRe It OuT, iTs JuSt LiKe EmAiL
There's a lot of us who just want better on boarding and defaults, it's not a lot to ask.
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The UX is objectively bad, it breaks most good design principles
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It doesn't keep dumb people out, it keeps non tech savvy people out, I've seen extremely immature people on here
I'd pick a mature user over a tech savvy user any day.
Ideally they'd be both -
it keeps non tech savvy people out,
Picking a server isn't a tech savvy person thing to do and it's a good idea to stop pretending like it is. My wife, who needs me to move her steam games to other drives for her, managed to do it without asking me a thing. Tech skill has nothing to do with it
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Has software usage really gotten to the point where the average person can't handle being given a choice about anything? Where it's just too much effort to do anything more than mindlessly click on whatever is presented to them?
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I don't think reddit admin will lift the suspension. So I can't post or comment. No point.
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Sorry, that's more than one sentence.
person you're saying that to: "So much words, very explaining!" runs away
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Although, I think the answer to the barrier to entry is to be less concerned with making federated services feel like centralized apps, more concerned with rebranding server select as the advantage that it actually is. Educate those people.
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So does old reddit but its also the only version of the site I find usable.
UX people can have absurdly lopsided priorities. -
League of legends back when I used to play.
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Is there even a point to which one you pick? I just picked .kbin because I liked the UI, and when that fell apart I moved to .world mostly at random.
Is there really a large difference between them?
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Which of the seven primary UX design principles would you like to complain about?
Give me some details here.
