Does federation have a bit of a learning curve? No doubt.

Is Lemmy buggy as heck? Absolutely.

But I don’t think that really justifies a lot of the comments I’m seeing in Reddit alternatives threads that it’s hard to figure out. The front page feed and sort options are very similar to Reddit. Searching for same-instance communities is not too difficult. Posting, commenting, and voting are all quite intuitive. What’s the problem?

  • tal@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I asked someone who wrote a huge reddit post about it, and they responded with “idk, I just looked at it and didn’t get it.”

    UI labs record a person trying to use something for the first time so they can see what they get stuck on. Like, mouse movements, clicks, even eye-tracking.

    Not saying that the Lemmy or kbin devs should be doing that right now, as they’ve got full plates. Or that Reddit did this. But understanding where and why people get stuck is a big part of working on UIs.

    • Wyrdletini@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      It’s the UI that trips me up on KBin. It’s probably a lot easier for people using a desktop to navigate. But from mobile, it’s frustrating when I tap what I believe should be a button and it isn’t actually a button. The navigation of KBin.social is less intuitive to me than the navigation of Lemmy.world. Also, yeah, “magazine” is not an intuitive term.