For me personally, so far it’s mostly neat. I love the simplicity of the webpage. But there are also some bugs here and there that are a bit annoying, though this is a community effort so it’s justified. Still better than New [site which shall not be named]. Some notable bugs for me include the fact that the vote counters jumps up and down and other vote counter shenanigans.
Anyways, what do you all think about the Lemmy website? Heck, drop in some opinions about the mobile apps too, because why not?
Anyways, what do you all think about the Lemmy website?
One of the cool things about Lemmy is that it isn’t one website. It’s dozens or even hundreds now. Each instance is its own website and some number of them have some interesting tweaks in the look and feel of their page.
Do you know of anywhere to find instances that have a unique/interesting experience?
Not off the top of my head, but I have seen some that look different just by clicking on them in this list of various instances.
Oh that’s a great idea, thanks!
I liked the website from what I saw, but I’ve been mostly browsing on Jerboa for Lemmy on Google play.
Love the app. It looks really great in list view with customized smaller font. UI looks and feels a lot like old school Alien Blue.
It’s so damn close, that it gives me reasonable confidence, it’ll get there. And even then, on desktop I’m very happy, its on mobile that I’m really needing some improvement beyond bug fixes.
make it look like old.reddit.com. i will immediately use whatever version best copies that format.
Jerboa in list mode basically does
i want an RIF version for mobile.
LIF. Lemmy is fun.
Kbin also natively looks a hell of a lot like old reddit
Luckily there’s this script that changes Lemmy to look a lot more like old reddit
Install the Stylus extension, then go over to UserStyles.world and grab a script for it. There are already several there to change the look and feel of Lemmy, and I’m using one that gets it a bit closer to the old.reddit look. Just search for ‘Lemmy’ on UserStyles.world.
I wish the layout was more compact. The old.reddit.com is near perfect. There are some cool css making Lemmy look better, but it is not ideal. But I also don’t doubt there will be web and native apps like Elk for Mastodon to do these things.
For me, I wish there was an option to not waste 50%+ of my screen by having everything only in the middle. But this is just a minor nitpick. I like the design overall, especially the dark theme.
This script makes it look a lot like old reddit, specially the compact version.
The app is really cool. I use Mlem. There’s an Apollo type app but it’s not very accessible with a screen reader currently.
Im gonna try to use both. I just havent made a lemmy account yet. I made this kbin account like a day or two ago but couldnt stay logged in (bugged), so I browsed lemmy and thought oh, the posts look like reddit posts, and that made me happy.
Then today I just tried kbin again and it’s working now yay :) so I’ll probably make a lemmy account soon too. To me they seem similar as long as they stay in the same fediverse
Same here. I do prefer the Kbin interface tho, seems neat. It’s a bit lacking on QOL changes but anybody can submit a PR to the repo and propose those changes
Dude, I don’t want to bring people down but Lemmy is unusable, the federation BARELY works, I feel like I’m posting locally when I do and the UI was buggy, laggy, confusing and etc.
You just have to get used to how federation works. Their is bugginess from the influx of new users right now but give it time. A good way to get used to how federation works is using Mastadon (which also integrates with Lemmy on many instances)
I tried mastodon and got frustrated and came to Lemmy and I love it.
I chose a small instance from the start and haven’t gotten that much lag at all. The one thing that does annoy me is the refreshing on the mainpage (and then suddenly an entire communities’ posts are all on top), but pressing refresh fixes that for me. Confusing? At first, but I don’t consider myself knowledgeable about tech and I was able to get it up, running and personalised before even reading a single guide. I curently sort by “all” and “new”, and just keep adding to my subscriptions.
Is there room for improvement? Absolutely. But I wouldn’t call lemmy unusable at all. I actually spend a lot more time on here than at the aforementioned place. And one absolutely major bonus point: we can integrate images in our reply here. And I can copy/paste in the reply without it suddenly completely bugging out and not being able to type at all. It just works as its’ supposed to.
Yeah, I hear you. I’ve tried a few different Lemmy instances and they’ve all varied in terms of bugs, posts getting stuck on the main page for days, not being able to load a post I made myself even though I keep getting comments on it. I get it, this is all new. But switching over to kbin made a huge difference. kbin.social is still getting killed from the amount of new users, but imo it looks and works way better than Lemmy while still being able to communicate with people on Lemmy. I’m not sure which system is newer, Lemmy or kbin, but kbin feels way more polished and responsive.
I’m enjoying using it.
I’ve been trying to sign up for lemmy.world but I just keep getting the infinite load circle. Kbin is pretty nice but the communities I used to visit seem to be moving to lemmy. I know I can see them on kbin but it makes it easier to just see it natively and I really like the Jerboa app.
For whatever reason, when I try going to any page at all on Lemmy , loading spinner stays stuck , have to manually refresh to load each every page . Unbearable ‼️
I do like how you can click an thumbnail and it will display inline, instead of going into the thread
Decent, but it is rather irritating to land on local server feed by default, I want to see all posts from all instances you fucking idiot, not some random posts from random people who by chance share the same server with me
You can change defaults in your profile settings. Also, you should try not being such a fucking asshole
