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Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Uh yeah. I’ve got no clue how to find new communities? Instances? Groups? Whatever the hell the equivalent of a subreddit is called. It’s not user friendly at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Whatever the hell the equivalent of a subreddit is called.

That's communities. Did you have issues with the communities link at the top of the page? You can switch it to the "All" view.

Also what the other comments said is good too, like for finding a very niche community I'll use https://lemmyverse.net/communities

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can browse the All feed but not much interests me there. I’ve found a few on my instance and stumbled upon some from other instances via links in posts but if I find a community on something like the website you posted I have no idea how to get there and subscribe to the community. I try to paste the link into the search but that just treats it like a keyword to search my instance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

could you give me an example of which community doesn't work?

you should be able to paste the [[email protected]](/c/[email protected]) into the search, it may take a few seconds even after it says "no results found", because remote searches can take a while

you can also copy-paste the full URL to the community into the search, like https://programming.dev/c/programmer_humor

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