This reddit post likely has tens if not hundreds of thousands of views, look at the top comment.

Lemmy is losing so many potential new users because the UX sucks for the vast majority of people.

What can we do?

  • nutomic@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    5 days ago

    A/B testing is not really possible in a decentralized system like this, it would require all instance admins to collaborate for collecting results, and would make deployment much more complicated. Not to forget that there simply arent enough development resources to implement it. That said if you see anything that can be improved, you’re welcome to make a pull request. Its standard Typescript wit TailwindCSS and Inferno, nothing complicated.

    • AnonomousWolf@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago

      You don’t have to AB test all instances, we can do smaller tests.

      But yea that’s complicated and takes effort, instead we should at least follow good UX design principles for the default UX

      • nutomic@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        Like I said you’re welcome to make pull requests. Lemmy is not a corporation employing multiple designers, but an open source project run by volunteers. So if you want to see something done, it’s best to do it yourself.