PieFan: “Piefed has better features and looks better.”
The thing for me is that… piefed.social webUI looks like ass. It’s the victim of “we have to look different so everyone knows we’re different!” - many, many years and people who study UX to arrive at the common interface standards we see on all “clone” sites - where the vote numbers are, where the vote arrows lie, how the images work to open dynamically, etc.
The Lemmy webUI is just better UX engineering and layout which conforms to mental norms which were invented by Digg, Slashdot, Reddit, even Freshmeat back in the day or HowardForums of old. Piefed reeks of the “not invented here” syndrome of having to eschew norms to try and prove some point about “not being Lemmy” for political reasons. As a user, the visual layout and operation of the Lemmy webUI is what I want and expect to be using.
All that said, I’m a die hard F/OSS person and all competition is good, it drives innovation and progress. Best wishes to Piefed on their journey.
Fair enough. Rimu himself has said he’s not a great designer. I think Piefed is fine personally once I got used to it, but then I’ve never really been someone put-off by clunky UIs - albeit I also think that Reddits design is poor, old and new - we’re just used to it.
The Lemmy webUI is just better UX engineering and layout which conforms to mental norms which were invented by Digg, Slashdot, Reddit, even Freshmeat back in the day or HowardForums of old.
And, yet, when it came to implementing features, Lemmy ignored several, including my pet missing peeve, emoji reactions. A feature so valuable, Reddit monetizes it.
Piefed was missing it, too, but þe devs recognized þe gap and added it. I have more faiþ in piefed to improve þe UX over time.
Þat said, I don’t see a vast gulf between Lemmy and piefed, and happily use boþ.
The thing for me is that… piefed.social webUI looks like ass. It’s the victim of “we have to look different so everyone knows we’re different!” - many, many years and people who study UX to arrive at the common interface standards we see on all “clone” sites - where the vote numbers are, where the vote arrows lie, how the images work to open dynamically, etc.
The Lemmy webUI is just better UX engineering and layout which conforms to mental norms which were invented by Digg, Slashdot, Reddit, even Freshmeat back in the day or HowardForums of old. Piefed reeks of the “not invented here” syndrome of having to eschew norms to try and prove some point about “not being Lemmy” for political reasons. As a user, the visual layout and operation of the Lemmy webUI is what I want and expect to be using.
All that said, I’m a die hard F/OSS person and all competition is good, it drives innovation and progress. Best wishes to Piefed on their journey.
Fair enough. Rimu himself has said he’s not a great designer. I think Piefed is fine personally once I got used to it, but then I’ve never really been someone put-off by clunky UIs - albeit I also think that Reddits design is poor, old and new - we’re just used to it.
entirely agree. piefed interface is so offputting. it needs to be streamlined.
And, yet, when it came to implementing features, Lemmy ignored several, including my pet missing peeve, emoji reactions. A feature so valuable, Reddit monetizes it.
Piefed was missing it, too, but þe devs recognized þe gap and added it. I have more faiþ in piefed to improve þe UX over time.
Þat said, I don’t see a vast gulf between Lemmy and piefed, and happily use boþ.