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Im joining in on the reddit ditching thing, and was kinda worried at first that i wouldnt be able to like use it the way i did reddit as it feels like a whole new place, but after engaging with posts and people and actually being a part of lemmy rather than being lurk mode all the time i was pleasantly surprised with how easy it is to become a member of the community, theres a reasonable amount of subs (or whatever the other word for em is) that fit my interests, enough linux content and shitposting for my liking, and the overall random posts made by people equally fed up with Leddit. (also i admit i used reddit a little cus there was this post on the fedora sub showing how to fix a sound issue i been having after a recent update)

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[–] edward@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Sounds like you want a few new reddit features when this site is more modeled on old reddit as many people prefer that.

> On post listings images thumbnails are too small, and the post has no direct link to the image.

How big would you want them to be? From a quick check they seem to be about the same size as new reddit's "classic" mode, about 100px wide by 80px tall. The main difference is lemmy doesn't crop the image to make it fix that box exactly.

And they do have a direct link, you should see it when hovering on the thumbnail, and middle clicking will open it in a new tab.

> I am not using old Reddit design. I like being able to open a post, and at the end close it (click to the side of it) and be back to the listing. On Lemmy I have to work with tabs or back navigation.

Those are pretty different UX philosophies and I doubt Lemmy would go for the former. Personally that's one of the things I hate about new reddit. All I can say there is middle click is your friend for opening new tabs.

> Comment upvote and downvote should be to the side, like on posts. That’d be more obvious and visually consistent.

The idea there is that you have to actually read through the comment before providing your opinion on it.

> Dropdown for reply language selection is suboptimal to say the least.

How else would you accomplish that?

> Edit should be a primary toolbar action. Not hidden within a collapsed section.

Yeah probably.

> But then visual separation is missing again between the different types of actions.

What do you mean there? There's decent spacing and different icons. I can't think of anything else to do besides color.

(As a note: I contributed a bit to the functionality of post listings, but I'm not a lemmy dev)

[–] Kissaki@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dropdown for reply language selection is suboptimal to say the least.

How else would you accomplish that?

I have two languages configured, so it's 3 options: undefined, en, de. 3 flag icons would suffice - make it more obvious (visual differentiation between them) and be usable with one click.

What do you mean there? There’s decent spacing and different icons. I can’t think of anything else to do besides color.

When expanded, my comment has 7 action icons. All of them are greyed out, and are visually on the same layer and type.

When I look through them I see different groups though:

  1. Voting - up and down
  2. Reply - discussion interaction
  3. save, edit, delete - comment actions
  4. view source - view option/toggle

On your comment, when expanded, I see 8 action icons. Even more. All the same visual weight with no differentiation.

  1. Upvote, downvote
  2. Reply, message - discussion interaction
  3. report, block user - issue actions
  4. save
  5. view source

What I would like to see is visual grouping of the different kind of activities. That'd not only make correlation, relation, and interaction closeness more obvious, but provide visual help to the eye in locating the desired actions. It'd also make it more obvious what the icons (which have no visible text labels) mean through differentiated association.

I'd do a DOM edit mockup, but it looks like the HTML source is minified.

[–] edward@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

What kind of visual are you thinking for the grouping? Underlines, separators, spacing, something else?

[–] Kissaki@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And they do have a direct link, you should see it when hovering on the thumbnail, and middle clicking will open it in a new tab.

The thumbnail links to a little bigger version of the thumbnail.

Only the top right icon (small) that allows you to expand in place links to the full image.

[–] edward@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not seeing that, it's all the same link for me.