Photon (and similar front ends) are pretty awesome on mobile. If Lemmy developers used it as a base for a new default webUI, it might solve all of the UI complaints.
It doesn’t help that Lemmy’s web UI is different depending on the instance. Personally I find dbzero’s really bad. But they might think that’s the Lemmy web UI and not realise it’s different on each instance.
Of course it’s all subjective but I suspect the people complaining about the UI are likely users that have only known reddits “redesign”, where as the older users will feel more at home on a default, unmodified Lemmy UI.
I disagree that having a variety of UIs is a bad thing. I wouldn’t want every instance to look like dbzero! It also highlights that Lemmy is not a single platform, it’s a federation of them. Heck even reddit has two UIs!
I actually think this post has a lot of solid points, many of which I have argued myself in the past. One thing was funny though. He says:
and then several users in the comments were turned off by the Web UI of Lemmy.
Photon (and similar front ends) are pretty awesome on mobile. If Lemmy developers used it as a base for a new default webUI, it might solve all of the UI complaints.
https://photon.lemmy.ca/
It doesn’t help that Lemmy’s web UI is different depending on the instance. Personally I find dbzero’s really bad. But they might think that’s the Lemmy web UI and not realise it’s different on each instance.
Of course it’s all subjective but I suspect the people complaining about the UI are likely users that have only known reddits “redesign”, where as the older users will feel more at home on a default, unmodified Lemmy UI.
https://v.lemmy.dbzer0.com/
I disagree that having a variety of UIs is a bad thing. I wouldn’t want every instance to look like dbzero! It also highlights that Lemmy is not a single platform, it’s a federation of them. Heck even reddit has two UIs!
They may not know the phone apps, and if they’re on iOS there may not be any.