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Not a huge fan of the UI (so much wasted space!) but it works for now. I'm subscribed to a few communities but the content is pretty stale. I've seen the same posts at the top for a few days now. The "Active" selection keeps the same things over. I tried a few of the other selections (Hot, Top Day, etc) but there is this weird thing where it randomly refreshes the feed and adds one or two new posts at the top and then pushes everything down. Again, UI/UX issues.
There's a user style that makes Lemmy a lot like old.reddit and it's awesome.
Edit: This one: https://userstyles.world/style/10311/old-reddit-ish-lemmy
@CalcProgrammer1 @diemunkiesdie That sounds dope! What's it called?
I just edited my post, here it is https://userstyles.world/style/10311/old-reddit-ish-lemmy
Yeah the stuff popping in while scrolling is weird and can be a bit aggravating.
What kind of space is wasted? Genuinely curious. I only really use it on my iPhone. On desktop is the comments area too narrow?
Yup, on desktop, the comment area takes up a 1/3rd of the screen and there is a lot of empty space on either side. Your reply is also too...tall? There is so much space around each action button and there are buttons at the top next to your name (permalink, collapse) and also at the bottom (up vote, down vote, reply) instead of having them all in one line. Also the vote count and post time are weirdly centered in the comment rather than on an edge to create clean borders. It makes no sense!
If you use TamperMonkey or a similar browser extension you can try this.
Makes it abit closer to old reddit and a lot easier to read on desktop imho.
Here's another user style https://userstyles.world/style/10301/better-lemmy.
It widens the display, changes bright green buttons to blue ones and improves the indentation of replies.
I'm using Jerboa, and posts seem don't disappear unless I interact with them (up vote, down vote, or open).
I keep forgetting this, which results in the same posts appearing over and over in the feed. This makes the platform seem inactive when it's really not.
Maybe you have something similar going on.
I'm on the website via a browser on PC. If the only way to make things disappear is upvote/downvote then that is another example of bad UX. I may not care about the post and now I have to proactively vote it up or down. On the flip side, if I was actually interested in a post and wanted to come back to that discussion later, you are saying it will now be gone from my feed. That stifles discussion.