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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?
Idk, customized accents and images/identity is an accessibility thing for a lot of people, helps them have a sense of being where they're intending to be & not lost in the content soup, which I do think a lot of decentralized projects do fall a little flat. It's a tough line to toe!
(edit: i think i maybe misunderstood some here, but imo lemmy's ui could use a little more clarity and polish, but ultimately like its lighter load visually)
Lol. They should've seen how I used to browse Reddit. White text on black background only.
Same here and I'm using kbin in dark mode with Dark Reader on top of it. I'm here to read and write, not to play Candy Crush.
Dark mode rocks!
Are those points meant to be bad things?
Using Kbin, and the default minimalistic design with everything in discrete text-boxes reminds me much more of older forum's than Reddit ever did. I like it!
Nobody wants to monetize "devoid of style and design"! KISS principle for the win.
The platform is not the content. The content is the content.
The same complaint was raised on Lemmy yesterday. Also some people gravitate towards kbin mainly for design reasons :p
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.
I hope we get a chance to customize to our liking at some point - but not like it matters that much to me anyway since I'm mostly mobile. I just hope my rif-like app comes soon enough.
Super strange though to complain from Reddit the lack of customization.
Normal users don't want to spend time to customize! The site should just provide a few reasonable, good-looking options by default...
People aren't like "oh this looks bad, I'm gonna make it look nice", they are more like "Oh this looks bad, so it must be a bad site, I'd better leave".
I love the fed designs. The dark minimalism is so nice and clean.
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.
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
Don't jinx it man!!
Kbin's default UI is pretty chill
Kbin's is much nicer than Lemmy's in my opinion. I think that might be because of how familiar it feels to reddit.
Definitely multiple sites on the fediverse can use some UI/UX tweaks and a high level pass on user flow and functionality. Like I get it, people shouldn't flock here and expect it to be a Reddit clone, but if people want mass adoption (and you do because you want comment and engagement), there needs to be QOL improvements to the core experience.
Lots of devs going around though trying to fix things up. I'm looking into kbin myself, but give it a few months and everything will be in a much better shape
I agree that a major blocker for the average people to enter the fediverse is indeed the lack of UX design in general. Collapsing comment threads comes to mind, for example, or a better layout for reactions (up-downvote is in top right corner, but reply/boos is bottom left, not really the best approach).
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.
There is like 10 or so apps in development for Lemmy rn and I don‘t know if any for kbin, but I fully expect some of these apps to allow us to change themes.
Kbin is still getting it's API fleshed out. There's one old mate who's been putting in a heap of effort getting it sorted so that's something nice to look forward to.
People are different. I never really liked or used Reddit, because it was a cluttered mess to me. This here? Nice, clean, resource efficient. I like Lemmy!