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Re: Welcome Lemmy.world

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Post by gerdesj »

eigenspace wrote: post #3

I wish Lemmy's default design was more of a copy of old.reddit.com. For me, that design was better than both HackerNews' design and way better than the current default look of Lemmy instances.

old.reddit.com looks rather dated to this 53 y/o bloke. Very busy too. I don't actually care because content is king and presentation is not but it would be nice if it looks good. Modern Reddit looks OK to me but I have recently deleted all comments I've ever made on Reddit and also my account. I will keep the mail alias alive for a while to see what shite turns up.

For me Reddit was a new and vaguely exciting thing once and I used it for around a decade and have now discarded it. I've dumped the Register too after around 20 years. I have no idea why I still have a /. account! that's next along with Facebook.

Back in the day I was asked to investigate this new fangled world wide web thing by an org with loads of cash and twiddling thumbs and I reported back it looked a lot like Gopher and WAIS but different. I might have also mentioned Teletext too.

I'm not an evangelist worth listening to but I've been here before. Just allow yourself to destroy accounts on systems that are no longer useful or productive anymore.

Move on.

Re: Welcome Lemmy.world

#12

Post by courseofaction »

eigenspace wrote: post #3

I wish Lemmy's default design was more of a copy of old.reddit.com. For me, that design was better than both HackerNews' design and way better than the current default look of Lemmy instances.

I am a fan of the software but I agree that the default design is horrible, it would probably serve Lemmy to get that addressed ASAP to get more people in the door.

It's open source, any UI/UX people spot some low-hanging fruit?

https://github.com/LemmyNet/

Re: Welcome Lemmy.world

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Post by lmm »

gerdesj wrote: post #11
eigenspace wrote: post #3

I wish Lemmy's default design was more of a copy of old.reddit.com. For me, that design was better than both HackerNews' design and way better than the current default look of Lemmy instances.

old.reddit.com looks rather dated to this 53 y/o bloke. Very busy too. I don't actually care because content is king and presentation is not but it would be nice if it looks good. Modern Reddit looks OK to me but I have recently deleted all comments I've ever made on Reddit and also my account. I will keep the mail alias alive for a while to see what shite turns up. For me Reddit was a new and vaguely exciting thing…

> old.reddit.com looks rather dated to this 53 y/o bloke. Very busy too. I don't actually care because content is king and presentation is not but it would be nice if it looks good.

Displaying actual content seems to look "dated" and "busy" by today's aesthetic standard. Do you have any example of a UI that has the information density of old.reddit.com but "looks good" by your standards?

Re: Welcome Lemmy.world

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Post by glenstein »

courseofaction wrote: post #12
eigenspace wrote: post #3

I wish Lemmy's default design was more of a copy of old.reddit.com. For me, that design was better than both HackerNews' design and way better than the current default look of Lemmy instances.

I am a fan of the software but I agree that the default design is horrible, it would probably serve Lemmy to get that addressed ASAP to get more people in the door. It's open source, any UI/UX people spot some low-hanging fruit? https://github.com/LemmyNet/

Lemmy has a built-in capability to cycle through various themes, but unfortunately all this themes seemed preserve the basic spacing and overall structure. I do think customizability with themes would hold huge potential if it had any true variety to it, along the lines of, say, winamp skins or something. I don't mean that example too literally, only to illustrate how much unrealized potential there is for themes, which are already built in, to truly add value.

Re: Welcome Lemmy.world

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Post by ronsor »

eigenspace wrote: post #3

I wish Lemmy's default design was more of a copy of old.reddit.com. For me, that design was better than both HackerNews' design and way better than the current default look of Lemmy instances.

In my opinion, the old Voat [0] design was the best one for a Reddit-style website.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20160216023609/https://voat.co/

Re: Welcome Lemmy.world

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Post by Narishma »

tester457 wrote: post #7
eigenspace wrote: post #3

I wish Lemmy's default design was more of a copy of old.reddit.com. For me, that design was better than both HackerNews' design and way better than the current default look of Lemmy instances.

Same. However it seems most people don't like the old.reddit look, only 4% of redditors use it. Most people are content with the slow bloated new reddit. When redditors talked about what sites to migrate to most of them preferred the modern interfaces over text based ones like tildes.net.

How many even know that old.reddit exists?

Re: Welcome Lemmy.world

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Post by camdenlock »

Took a look at mastodon.world out of curiosity. Total conformity of belief on the entire front page timeline. Maybe it’s another one of those Mastodon instances where anti-capitalist social justice is the approved dogma, and dissenters are banned? Seems to be a lot of those…

Re: Welcome Lemmy.world

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Post by yosito »

camdenlock wrote: post #18

Took a look at mastodon.world out of curiosity. Total conformity of belief on the entire front page timeline. Maybe it’s another one of those Mastodon instances where anti-capitalist social justice is the approved dogma, and dissenters are banned? Seems to be a lot of those…

The beauty of Mastodon is that you can set up your own server if you don't like how someone else runs theirs!

Re: Welcome Lemmy.world

#20

Post by ajsnigrutin »

rglullis wrote: post #9
gareve wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

with some basic extrapolation, at how many users they'll hit the extra expensive Hertzner servers? or in other words, at which point they'll need to improve their architecture?

I honestly wish that the answer is "when we get so big to the point that a single machine can not handle it, we close registrations". Can we please drop the "number must go up" mentality? The whole point of federated systems is to avoid concentration of power in a handful of servers. I'm sure that the people doing there have good intentions, but why can't we just let things just a little bit dispersed ?

Sure, until you google some error, or some other random thing, find some thread somewhere, want to comment/ask/contribute, and you can't, since the registrations are locked.
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