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How has ur lemmy experience been so far? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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