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?
Well good, maybe they’ll stay on Reddit.
I’m ok with the Lemmy plain designs.
I’m just glad it defaults to dark mode. Any site that defaults to light mode can go straight to hell.
I think Lemmy could use some more ads. I feel like I don’t have enough material things, and I don’t know what to buy. /s
I also would like to have content that makes people angry shoved in my face to keep me engaged.
I think the more they bitch about Reddit alternatives, the more people will be reminded that there are alternatives to Reddit.
I do use Lemmy because the whole thing with Reddit just sucked, but holy hell yeah, new Reddit looked so much better. It’s not the world, I can get used to it and it’s fine, but the preference is clear.
Reddit is ridiculously slow in the last several years. When I click CMD+F to start search I need to wait several seconds because of all the JavaScript running.
I’m here to read think and talk. I like it simple.
Yeah, for real. “But there’s no fun awards and bubbly icons and bright colors.”
Well then, go back to kindergarten.
It’s about personal preference. It’s important to have a user interface that’s modular and comfortable for the end user and manageable for the devs. Options are always the answer, the ability to enable or disable certain aspect or details is what drives me towards one app or the other. (This is coming from someone who used Infinity for Reddit for the past 4 years.)
I love the simplified interface. I do wish I could have a ‘Front Page’ view that creates an equivalent Community of all my subscriptions.
Isn’t that just switching the feed to “subscribed”?
Yeah that’s all it does. It doesn’t actually create the equivalent of Reddit’s Front Page.
I definitely miss Reddit’s stylesheets. Giving mods control over the page’s CSS was just really neat. Everything had an individual flair
