cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/55413416

This reddit post likely has tens if not hundreds of thousands of views, look at the top comment.

Lemmy is losing so many potential new users because the UX sucks for the vast majority of people.

What can we do?

  • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.comMEnglish
    5·
    10 hours ago

    I think the UI itself is also a problem, i commented about it on your previous posts but tl;dr: no good card view, bad language implementation, and i wish we could customize the pins on the side, i don’t want to see info about the instance i already know about; i want to see my subscriptions. (i know this is apart of your UX problems but i wrote it in perspective of bad defaults and am too lazy to rewrite it x) )

    I completely agree we’ll be replaced by a BSky alternative if we don’t fix this. PS: They’re remaking the lemmy ui, this is a good chance to fix a lot of issues:

    https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui-leptos

    • Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      10 hours ago

      I completely agree we’ll be replaced by a BSky alternative if we don’t fix this

      There’s no appeal for text-based forums nowadays. How people do you know in real life who use Reddit? Most of the people are on IG/TikTok/Twitter.

      • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.comMEnglish
        2·
        10 hours ago

        Yeah. Most people are interested with the content just being shown to them with not much thought about it. Ain’t calling lemmy a think tank that’s for sure, but at least to use it properly you have to engage in discussion.

        I don’t know anybody in real life using reddit or such, but they’re only very obscure here in the middle east. I don’t know about the rest of the world but reddit is a corpo, and you don’t get to that position by being obscure. Just a thought

          • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.comMEnglish
            2·
            10 hours ago

            I didn’t know of the literal meaning but i just hear it and picked it up in my vocabulary. Just saying sometimes we don’t have the most deep discussions lol. At least i don’t x)

            TIL, thanks