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Lemmy-UI is the "Windows" of Lemmy Clients (dubvee.org)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by ptz@dubvee.org to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world
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Comparisons:

  • Does most things; does none of them particularly well
  • Comes with the system
  • Most people think that's just how the platform is
  • Annoying bugs take forever to get fixed
  • Only wears 15 pieces of flair
  • Extremely annoying to use after using a better system for any amount of time

I've seen very few 3rd party clients that are not miles ahead of Lemmy-UI. Of those that weren't ahead of L-UI, most of them weren't even finished, so it's hardly a fair comparison.

If you're reading this on Lemmy-UI, you might want to check out https://lemmyapps.com/ and see what you've been missing. I'm not affiliated with that, it's just a good resource.

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 15 points 1 day ago

I actually kind of like that the stock UI is just web pages, and you click things, and the things you click take you to new pages.* I may be in the minority in this, but I don’t feel that everything needs to have a whole new UI that has to “boot up” while it loads its libraries, and then takes over the browser area with its own special little UI with all kinds of different scrolling behaviors for different columns, and little animations when you do things, and copying the URL from the browser doesn’t really work.

(* Some service worker fuckups aside)

I don’t love that visually, it looks like a circa-2005 student web page project, and it has “themes” which just change to a differently unappealing set of colors, but life is like that, it is fine.

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As long as it's open source, isn't a literal trojan and doesn't steal & sell my data...

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Ok, so it's the Windows 7 of Lemmy clients then lol. (minus the open source anyway)

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And yet people on here get mad at me for still using Windows 7 instead of Linux.

I tried typing "do the internet" into terminal, it didn't work. I typed "do the internet" on windows search start bar, and dominoes had an XL 5 topping pizza sent to my house, and firefox opened a youtube video of "do the mario".

Checkmate linux!

[–] kabi@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Ok but did you eat an orange first? This is cricual.

[–] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm a super smart guy and very tech savvy, but I have this friend that doesn't know what you are talking about. Will you dumb it down for him?

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Lemmy-UI is the "default" way to interact with lemmy on most instances. It's kind of a dumpster fire in a lot of ways, but you only really start to notice it after you've used a third party client for any length of time.

The link in the post, LemmyApps.com, is a directory of actively supported 3rd party clients. You're on Lemmy World, and they already run a few alternate frontends you can try with little/no effort:

[–] moleverine@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Definitely going to have to test Alexandrite vs Mlmym. Alexandrite feels just like old reddit, but I'm liking the UI of Alexandrite, too. Thanks!

[–] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

My friend says thank you. old.lemmy.world is LEGIT

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're certainly welcome to your own opinion, but besides the old.lemmy.world, most of those look like "new reddit" which I hated there too. Even the old.lemmy.world imports artifacts from reddit that aren't really useful on lemmy (but I understand the appeal for folks that still use reddit).

The default UI is fairly lightweight. My preference is typically for lightweight over "feature rich". I mean, we're not curing cancer here, so the stakes are pretty low.

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

I like Alexandrite's 2-column view. I can browse on one tab without having to go back and forth between posts and feeds or opening posts in new tabs. It's fast and lightweight too. For me it's the only web UI option that actually enhances the browsing experience.