How’s everyone liking this so far?

SpezCanLigmaBalls@lemmy.world to Lemmy.World Announcements@lemmy.world – 137 points –

I honestly do not mind it one but. I quite like the interface. It’s minimal but there are some bugs to it which is to be expected. I really do like the overall design of it though. There isn’t too much going on. It’s like old Reddit which I am a big fan of

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Overall, I'm liking it, but I have some critiques:

  1. The apps won't follow hyperlinks to third-party servers. This is not Lemmy's fault; the Universal Links feature of Apple OSes and App Links feature of Android were not made with federation in mind. This will be a tricky problem for them to solve without getting seriously technical.
  2. I don't like how external links don't open in new windows/tabs by default, and there appears to be no preference to fix this.
  3. There appears to be some bugginess with the web interface and voting where, if I upvote something, the upvote may disappear a second or two later. But if I refresh and re-read the comment, my original upvote stuck.
  4. There needs to be more centralization of subs; as of now, there is so much duplication that it's worse than Reddit. Reddit has some forked subs, mainly on ideological grounds or because of mergers, but it's got nothing on Lemmy so far.
  5. When reading on the web, my view jumps around a lot. I'm guessing it's loading in new comments as they come in on the server. That's fine, but the abruptness of the whole thing causes me to sometimes lose my place. If it's going to continuously load new comments, I would prefer that they be animated, so at least I can observe the change in motion.
  6. While I was typing this, I noticed that the page top reloaded with a different topic. I'm guessing that's a bug.
  7. It's good to have rules to prevent conversations from descending into chaos. I just hope that the rules are not interpreted too broadly.

For point 1, does this help? https://feddit.uk/post/9352

No, because I'm talking about Universal Links/App Links, the feature of Android and iOS/macOS where you tap/click on an HTTP(S) link to some site, and the link opens & gets handled in the app. The feature was made with centralization in mind, so it won't work with federated servers, especially for users on small servers.

So what I think you're talking about is called deep links, and it's certainly a challenge in this scenario

I'm pretty sure it's solvable with some effort, I'm working on a Lemmy client now and will look into intents that could be sent from the Lemmy front end. My main concern is just recognizing the links in-app robustly as people learn how to format them - if the client doesn't kick you into the browser, it solves half the problem and I'll worry about the other half

4- You signed up for a decentralized service that advertises the lack of a central authority, to leave a central authority, and now you're complaining there's no central authority.

This isn't Reddit, and it's not designed to be a Reddit clone. There are people working on 1 for 1 clones, and it's totally fine if you want that, but maybe you should find one of those instead of demanding the people who built a specific platform with a specific vision immediately ditch all of that to cater to Reddit exiles.

I didn't demand anything; I just made a criticism. There's a difference.

I'm fine with there being no central authority for servers; I just wish there was a central authority for subs, like there is with Usenet, which has no central authority for servers, but it has a central authority for groups carried by the servers. Without one, the user base gets fragmented pretty quickly.

Without one, the user base gets fragmented pretty quickly.

A- I've seen a few community browsers pop up, you can find one in most intro threads and there's also a built in explorer.

B- That's the entire point