Lemmy is going to look more appealing as time goes on.
this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2025
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Lemmy needs to drastically improve the UX before it'll become big
What would you like to see improved ? This could be great contributions to the codebase :)
I mean, the downsides of the Fediverse have been discussed at length.
Here's a routine occurence: i'm browsing around, opening new tabs and such; then i go to upvote something, and it tells me i'm not logged in. This is how i find out i've accidentally left my instance. It's cooked at that point, i'm not going to post that comment, if i really wanted to i'd have to carefully replace the relevant parts of the URL. This keeps happening in both Lemmy and Mastodon.
I need to 1. Not fall out of my instance as easily, and 2. if i've opened a page outside my instance, i need to be able to open the same page in my instance in one click. Anything else is is annoying to me and a complete deal breaker to most new users.
I don't doubt that there's loads of work done in the backend that i don't see, but from my point of view as a user, Lemmy still has the same problems it had when i joined two years ago. That's right, it's been just about two years, the Reddit API debacle was around April-June of 23, and i haven't seen glaring problems adressed.
Even when I do stay on my instance, I randomly get logged out every few minutes. Only happens on my iPhone, never my computer, but it heavily discourages me from upvoting let alone posting.
Also the fact I have to select the language every time is really annoying. When have I ever posted something not in “English”?
I see, I really need to get started using the official front-end more to understand UX problems :)
The web UI is pretty bad IMO. We need to get some serious designers on that.
Are you aware of old.lemmy.world ?
Hah, that's dumb, and also cool. I might end up actually using it..
lol, that's cool! no i wasn't
I've found a good 3rd party web app, Alexandrite.app although that's just another hurdle to entry like picking an instance. The official web UI should be much better.
Try a.lemmy.world
How many of these alternative UIs are there?
Loads. I don't know if there is a list anywhere.
Could probably drag up DNS records or cert records, if it's not all wildcards
Nice, that's actually exactly the UI alaxandrite.app gives lemmings.world
Yea there are just way too many hurdles