• Carnelian@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Dms take a couple extra taps, and I wish we had the option still to swipe right to quickly see who is online.

      But the search menu is VASTLY improved, and I like the design in general. I’m hoping we get a few tweaks and then it will be perfect

  • Margot Robbie@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Lemmy’s biggest competitor at this point isn’t reddit, it’s Discord, or rather, the monster it has become. It seems to me that instead of creating a subreddit nowadays, every project now wants to use a Discord server for everything.

    The problem with that is:

    1. Asking messages in a big, open chatroom (over, say, 20 people) gets real messy, real quickly.
    2. Conversations on Discord are difficult to follow when multiple of them are going at once.
    3. The conversations containing solutions to problems in chat or threads are not search indexable, which is the reason why reddit became quietly dominant in search results, it is simply the biggest centralized repository of organized English language text conversations available.

    So why do people insist on using Discord servers to build their community? Simple, it’s the network effect. If somebody wants tech support, it’s way easier to click a Discord invite on an account for group chat you already have than it is to sign up for yet another forum that you only use once. But Lemmy doesn’t suffer from that problem of traditional forums because of federation.

    Which brings me to my point, if Lemmy is to grow, it’s better to sell Lemmy to disgruntled Discord admins and forum owners to move their community than it is to get people to move off reddit at this point, since people who wants to leave reddit has all done so at this point.

    • KrummsHairyBalls@lemmy.ca
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      11 months ago

      Discord sucks, but I’ve actually had a 100% successful help rate on it vs Reddit or Lemmy.

      Typically Discord servers have specific tech support rooms, and you’ll get help pretty quickly. Only once I have had to ask my question a second time, because it was missed the first time.

      Meanwhile Reddit threads just get downvoted, buried, and you’re never helped. Even when I try to search for threads that other people have posted, 90% of threads are just blank.

      Lemmy is the worst. Doesn’t matter what you need, they’ll just call you stupid and tell you to use Linux and FOSS alternative, ignoring the fact you NEED to use what you’re asking help with.

  • Bear@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    I prefer it TBH. things are easier to reach and suit a phone better than what was essentially the desktop app squeezed onto a phone.

  • Nipplecreek@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    I hate it. It takes longer to get to useful features and in place you can now access things you’ve never cared to use faster.

  • AstralPath@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    To everyone complaining about the updates; it’s likely that after a week or so you will just get used to the new layout and won’t even think about it anymore.

    Personally, I have no issues with the update. Took about 5 mins to understand the changes move on. I also welcome the true black theme. Will save a decent amount of battery on my phone.

    • Concetta@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      11 months ago

      I heavily disagree with you. People who get annoyed by certain ui changes always will, I still hate YouTube’s new layout multiple years later.

      • Ravi@feddit.de
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        11 months ago

        There are always people getting annoyed by changes, doesn’t matter what the changes are. Sometimes I get the impression that humans just need something to be annoyed about.

    • TheRadiatorIsWarm@sopuli.xyz
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      11 months ago

      You could still tap multiple times on “Dark theme” in the Appearance settings on the now-old version to make the AMOLED one appear.

      Downvote, why?

  • GTG3000@programming.dev
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    11 months ago

    Personally hate the change to the swipe. I get that on some huge servers people probably use the “reply” feature a lot, but I definitely don’t have so much use for it as to give up the nice, coherent and logical UX of “channel/server list is on the left, user list is on the right, just swipe to them”.

    IMO, swiping should be for navigating UI, not interacting with individual items. Now there’s a useless thing on the swipe and I have to reach to the top of the screen if I want to check who’s online and in the channel. Annoying.

    That and the new DM screen doesn’t use swipe right as navigation, it’s just a “back” button now. Can’t quickly look at the DM list and go back to your conversation by swiping right-left any more. Literal lazy design because this is an easier way to program that interaction.

    Don’t care super much about the DM button moving, it’s more convenient to access but breaks the UI paradigm. Shrug.

    Oh, and the “midnight” theme is not new, you could use it for years now in the old versions.

  • Wren@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    11 months ago

    This is why everyone should disable auto updates

    Granted, apps can lock you out if you don’t have a certain version, but by and large, you should be able to choose to update when there’s this drastic of a change

  • Altima NEO@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Yeah the update sucks… Yet again. Like the time they changed from the Android code base to the iPhone one.

      • chipt4@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        11 months ago

        He’s talking about 6~(?) months ago, they ditched the android specific codebase and ported the iPhone app to Android (“unified the codebase”) which made a lot of things shittier on the android side of things

        • Scraft161@iusearchlinux.fyi
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          11 months ago

          Yup, still mad about that one. Some day nobody will remember that the mobile app was somewhat responsive. I do know that there are projects that still allow you to use the old app; but I don’t know how long the API for it will still be supported by discord.