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Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 week ago by AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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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?

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[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I personally see three big issues with getting new users to Lemmy use and stat on Lemmy:

  • knowing about it: It is a matter of time before Reddit bans linking to Lemmy. Either by outright preventing their discussion via shadow deletes or full deletes. join-lemmy.org would be well served by purchasing ads on Google and on Bing
  • join-lemmy ux needs to be improved: this goes to your point and I fully agree that there needs to be a better onboarding experience. I am a fairly technical guy and even I had trouble understanding the major concepts behind Lemmy. Many of these concepts aren't terribly important to a new user though. At least at first.
  • more and better content: this is fortunately getting better but we're not there yet
[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Join-lemmy provides a subpar experience: https://lemmy.world/post/24220536

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Pull requests are more than welcome to improve the site. Its basic Typescript, TailwindCSS and Inferno.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site

You can also make changes to the documentation, its markdown just like Lemmy itself. So if you would write something differently then open a pull request and change it!

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-docs

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks for reminding.

I'm more busy on !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com at the moment but I might give it a go at some point.

Just seems strange to have so many people wanting to fix this in this thread without actually acting

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Exactly it seems most people here still didn't realize that this is an open source project run by volunteers, not a corporation with countless employees and a profit motive. If people want something to get done then it's best they start doing it themselves.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

tbf a lot of people here don't know how to code, or even where to start if they do

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

There's been a few of those posts lately, the next one I'm probably going to suggest the OP to improve the onboarding themselves