better cross-instance user experience. Like now if you want to post to another instance you have to use the search bar and pray, right? Or is there a better way? If there’s a better way, I couldn’t find it. In general more streamlined “community discovery” features.
I would a UX designer and force their feedback to be accepted. I’ve personally grown accustom to Lemmy’s UI, but it took me way longer than most sites.
- Communities having names and URLs misaligned is an antifeature
- Creating a post requiring to subscribe first is an antifeature
- UX rule of proximity has improved a lot over time actually, was going to write about this but all my complaints seem to be resolved
- Lemmy UI is very customizable, but the default white and green theme sucks
Actually, the more I think about it, Lemmy’s UX has improved a lot. Inbox used to be a nightmare, it works pretty great now.
#2 is fixed in the next release btw.
What does #1 mean?
Point 1 refers to the “Name” and “Display name”. For example it’s cumbersome to have cases like “Programmer Humor” pointing to “/c/programmerhumor” and “Lemmy Support” pointing to “/c/lemmy_support”
That to me is a very necessary feature, for at least two reasons.
- Internationalization: URLs are always latin chars, which would exclude any non-latin community or usernames.
- More complex community names. You can see how ridiculous reddit community names can get, because they don’t allow spaces or non-latin characters, in either community or usernames. Spaces specifically is a necessary one for both, and URLs wouldn’t permit that.
Working on the web interface to achieve better web browser compatibility and performance.
I’d like to reference this blog post by the mastodon devs from a few days ago. Joinmastodon.org just had a redesign/relaunch. Considering they’re further ahead in the same game, there’s probably some useful insight that can be gleaned from there.
