To my knowledge we don't want to filter out non tech savvy people. If that's what we want then cool, leave it as is.
But I don't think that's true, especially not for all instances.
AnonomousWolf
joined 3 months ago
I'm 32 and work in tech, The reality is the vast majority of people won't want to use old.reddit style UI
I'm comfortable powering through shitty UI/UX etc. I've even built them myself, but others won't settle for shitty UI
You and your friends are old I assume, and got used to the old.reddit UI, and didn't want to change.
Most people are used to modern UI, and won't want to change to old UI, just like you don't want to change either. We should better cater for average people.
I wish just like NSFW filter, posts can be marked as Political, and users have the option to block all of that.
If you have to explain a joke it loses its meaning. If you have to explain UI, it loses its meaning.
It should be self explanatory.
People here say Lemmy's UX is fine, and then give a paragraph of instructions a user should follow to get started. They should just be able to start scrolling immediately, and if they want to interact they should be asked to create an account, and a instance suggested.
I think a good solution would be to randomly send people to one of the top 5 instances that aren't very political (What ever that might be)
The UX once you figure out what works for you in Lemmy is nice, the UX getting to that point is terrible, as many have said. Most will quit before getting to the good part.
And? We want all kinds of people on Lemmy not just 'skilled' people
Sure but we should still improve UX
The UX the way it currently is filters out non tech savvy people, so we mostly end up with tech savvy people here.
Why April 16th?
Exactly.
UX is like a Joke, if you need to explain it to someone it's bad UX
I think we should have a Lemmy landing page, that should help you choose a instance.
Ask you to select a few topics you're interested in, if you want to see political content and/or NSFW content.
And then make a suggestion (randomly from one of a few fitting instances)
Once a user gets used to the platform they can always switch