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Do people actually like all of the overdesigned clutter to the point where it makes them not want to switch sites?
To me, the stripped down clarity on Lemmy is a feature. I remember back in the day when people flocked to Facebook from MySpace, in large part because they were sick of eye gouging customized pages and just wanted a simple, consistent interface. The content, not the buttons to click on it are the draw right?
The content, not the buttons to click on it are the draw right?
Let me ask you this, what made you use Apollo rather than the 1st party Reddit app?
For me it was the far superiour UI.
I think kbin is pretty nice as it is and I am sure the developers will make it even better in the future.
A really nice bonus is the lack of advertisements on the platform (or maybe I am blocking it, I dont know?). compared to official reddit it feels very refreshing to only have content to focus on.
There will never be ads on this platform or any other fediverse platform.
With Meta's "Threads" on the horizon, I'd be careful saying stuff like that
In that case the ads will be on "Threads", because they like them. But they can't force any other service to apply them.
Don't jinx it man!!
Well whoever wrote that post in the OP clearly hasn't explored too much yet.
Even beyond that, though, there are styles, they are modern and clean, and people are already making apps and extensions anyway. This seems like a pretty low effort bar to pass.
Oh, that's so neat. I'm personally a fan of the minimal UI, but I love that we can do that. I actually might look into them if I could change the vote buttons, etc to stuff.
Although their complaint kind of confuses me. I'm not aware that reddit was anything other than various shades of gray either, and while lemmy seems to lack the ability right yet(?), kbin already has the rounded corners option right there in settings where anyone would look for it.
It's not exactly impossible that they just haven't found out, but it's an easy thing to ask if you don't understand what little comes up on Google, and asking is what you do when you first move platforms. I wonder if they're one of the ones that never even signed up in the first place.
To be fair, Apollo and other phone apps set a standard of quality for the content we expect. Old reddit is efficient but even kbin and lemmy are a little rough on the edges compared to that. It’s the first impression that matters to a lot of people and it’s not up to the standard most expect. It’s a good start, but just that, a start.
I don‘t think this is entirely true. Sure there are better designed apps, but the main userbase uses the new Reddit, the official Reddit app and things like MS Teams. Most people wouldn’t use this platforms if user experience and first impressions really matter. The same goes for MS Windows. MS published a rather unstable OS for over 10 years and still it is the most popular OS.
Don't like the Reddit interface? ==> Good luck! With the API price change it just became more difficult to change the UX/UI for Reddit users.
Don't like the interface of any of the fediverse platforms? ==> Pick your poison: choose another platform/instance or built your own, nobody is stopping you!
All these years, somehow, I've never seen new Reddit. No idea what it looks like or what it does.
Sometimes less is more when it comes to user interface.
Well good, maybe they'll stay on Reddit.