Hey folks!

I’ve been steadily working through the roadmap for lemmy-ui-next (which is a new alternative Lemmy frontend), and it’s getting to a point where I think https://next.lemm.ee is becoming quite usable. I’ve been personally using it as my main Lemmy frontend for several weeks now, and I know there are a few other brave users doing the same, so at this point, I’m confident enough to ask the wider lemm.ee population to try it out and share some honest feedback.

If you’re at all interested in this project, I would massively appreciate it if you could spend some time using https://next.lemm.ee and letting me know how you feel about it. I’m interested to hear about things like:

  • are you running into any issues or bugs
  • are there any things that generally annoy you
  • are you missing any features
  • what would it take for lemmy-ui-next to become your preferred frontend
  • anything else that comes to mind

Please keep in mind that this is still a work in progress - some features are planned but not implemented yet (see the roadmap linked above for more details), other features are half-finished and may be a bit buggy still!

Any feedback would really help me out, so please don’t hesitate to share!

  • Margot Robbie@lemm.ee
    71·
    7 months ago

    I think it’s best to move upvote/downvote buttons for the comments to the bottom of each comment as regular Lemmy UI, since there is a large amount of dead space on the left side of the comments being taken up by the vote buttons that it’s difficult to read past a few level of nesting.

    Plus, regular Lemmy UI layout also shows the exact number of upvotes and downvotes for each comment at a quick glance, which I think is an important aspect of Lemmy.

    Compare the space utilization of this:

    To this:

    • RobotDaniel@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      7 months ago

      This sounds good as the bottom makes more sense as if you are reading a longer comment you want to upvote at the end, not have to scroll back to the top to upvote

      • shastaxc@lemm.ee
        3·
        7 months ago

        On some apps like Connect, you can customize swipe actions. I like being able to swipe a comment to upvote, downvote, and hide.

    • waldyrious@lemm.ee
      1·
      7 months ago

      I actually disagree. Your comment is a good example. You state your case up front, add a bit of context, but then there are some screenshots that take up quite a bit of space. I do appreciate the possibility of voting on the comment without having to scroll all the way down to find the arrows, without gaining much in terms of understanding your message further.