What the fuck is their deal?
I’ve found the community here much more off-putting than the discord, which seemed like an open welcoming space to explore ideas, where the Lemmy can feel like people bashing each other and promoting their beliefs as superior. I’ve found it a lot less welcoming and that makes me sad. idk what if anything can be done about it
I mean, that was a joke, like you would normally have seen on reddit. None of this has changed.
I’ve been going to some of the sub boards to find a decent amount of effort posting. technology has a lot of info on keeping privacy safe, how to pirate, etc. Music is starting regular waylt mega threads, history is starting some specific discussions.
The main page is just pure shitpost though.
Nah it’s fine, feels exactly like the late 2016 chapo subreddit which means over the next three years this place is gonna grow into a cool-ass monstrosity
The UI for this site is broken, for one.
Yeah there’s some (what I feel are) fundamental bugs at the moment. Once those get sorted out and more of the community migrates over I can see it picking up. Just having a public mod log is a huge improvement to other communities imo
I mean there’s some reddit functionally missing but I wouldn’t call it fundamental. Can you write down a few things that you noticed? (I hope I can unsee once I know what it broken :D)
Just a few things off the top of my head: context link for comment replies is broken if the thread has more than a couple dozen comments (makes it difficult to see what I’m replying to half the time), page snaps back to the top if you back out of a thread, page jumps around on auto-refresh, no way to set default comment sort (especially important because “hot” and “top” are very different), issues with touch targets on mobile, side bar can take up 2/3rds of the page on some devices, page sometimes loses scrolling intertia on back.
Not complete show stoppers but some of these a pretty major nevertheless
Half the time thumbnails on the main page load too big and on their own line instead of inline with the topic title, etc which makes the page borderline unreadable. Every single light theme is unusable because whoever set this thing up tried to use separate CSS instead of the theme CSS to style it so it’s always black (but with black text on light themes lol) which is about the most amateurish webdev mistake one can make and doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence. “Create Post” randomly has a big delay after clicking on it or sometimes just never loads. Using Hexagon bear meme as a UI element is cringe. Probably more but that’s what I’ve seen so far in my first 30 minutes of using this site.
