I’ve heard many people saying that the front-end looks old and needs more work, but I’ve never heard someone describe how it could look better. To me, it looks perfectly fine. I wish it had a card layout similar to libreddit, but aside from that, I think it’s nice. If people want a completely different look, then there’s lemmyBB, and there will probably be other front-ends in the future. However, we should hear opinions about which styles people want.

  • SkyNTP@lemmy.mlEnglish
    26·
    1 year ago

    For me, the primary issue now is it’s not clear how federation works. The UI now seems to be heavily inspired by traditional media (e.g. reddit, Twitter). But there’s not a whole lot of clarity when it comes to federation-specific features.

    • I’m not exactly sure which communities and users are from where? It’s not always obvious? Since moderation rules are different for different communities, this seems vital. Subtle uses of BG color or icons could go a long way.
    • Speaking of moderation rules, where are they?
    • How can I explore other communities on other instances? I know there is All. Is that before or after my instance’s filtering?
    • Are there ways of automatically exploring/aggregating similar communities on different instances? I saw someone use #hashtags, they took me to a website I don’t recognize. Are hashtags even part of the protocol?
    • Clicking on links to other communities in Jerboa takes me to the browser. Huh?
    • Jerboa: tapping a comment in a list (e.g. profile, inbox) doesn’t take me to that comment. This seems vastly more important than preserving text selection in those contexts.