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?

  • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca
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    6 hours ago

    it feels like old reddit

    Wait, when did that become a bad thing? I exclusively browsed old.reddit.com because the new layout is a fucking abomination.

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      3 hours ago

      i came here to say the same thing! if people actually genuinely like the new reddit ui, those people might just want and need different things out of a website than we do, and trying to onboard them might be a fool’s errand. not to be a gatekeeper, i’d love if everyone quit the corporate web, but a lot of the things people complain about here like the ui and the decentrilization are why i’m here (in my case mbin) and not there to begin with

      same thing with mastodon, people still rail against it’s ui but the ui was a big reason i even made a mastodon long before twitter was bought out, back when they first tried to phase out the chronological timeline

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      6 hours ago

      That’s the feature! Not a bug.

      The new reddit design sucks and always has, other than dark mode.

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        37 minutes ago

        I feel like most the old school redditors have long migrated, I’ve only ever heard good things about the new UI from relatively new users.

        Lemmy is old reddit, if not OG internet ethos.

    • Yeah, it seems most people still on reddit prefer the newer mobile UI. I never used one of the ‘fancy’ modern reddit apps, and I’m lowkey scared for the inevitable switch I’ll have to make when Eternity finally dies. All the other FOSS apps left have a very ‘iOS’ feel to them that I can’t stand

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      6 hours ago

      When I first read it I thought they were mentioning that as a selling point! But yeah it seems like they’re saying it like it’s a bad thing.