I... actually like it a lot, and wouldn't mind switching to it? But also, if I'm the only one who'd be interested, I don't want to be a bother, I can use the current format just fine.
this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2023
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Using the network devtools, you can see that logging in sends the request directly to the instance, and does not send it through the server. The only proxying done is to upload images due to a CORS issue with Lemmy.
The client is open source, you can check it here: https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon
I know your code isn’t malicious; in general I don’t recommend, write a Nix package for, and deploy malware. the threat model here is that the infrastructure that hosts phtn.app gets compromised by an external malicious actor, who then swaps your code out for a version that hijacks JWTs and steals credentials, which would be a big mess for me to clean up. given how many best practices around JWTs and security best practices the lemmy backend ignores (and of course none of this is a Photon problem, these are just the cards the backend has dealt us both), I prefer an ounce of paranoia over a security event that would be very hard to recover from
If it's an improvement over current lemmy UI, I'll take it lol. It's not like standard-lemmy-ui is some old-Reddit-interface-style minimalist barebones thing, but the "new-reddit-ness" doesn't bother me too much personally.
The main reason I can't stand the actual new.reddit is because it collapses threads after like 2-3 replies, and then when you go back out of a sub-thread it has a tendency to lose your place. I'm assuming it's some kind of stupid growth hack on Reddit's part to prevent people from reading comments for too long (not enough ads in the comments section!)
So as long as this one doesn't have that stupid behavior, I'm fine with it lol
I’m assuming it’s some kind of stupid growth hack on Reddit’s part
this is a solid explanation for most of the worst parts of reddit really
this shit ... which I hate
it looks like someone with UX experience was at least in proximity to this at the time it was designed?
ouch. that hurt.
yeah this is how @self posts when he likes things
I was about to say “unless I really love it and use it everywhere like NixOS” but my first post about NixOS here called it fucking incomprehensible so uh
ah yep, I can see how my post could come off to someone unfamiliar with my writing style. I added a bullet point with my (generally positive) impression on Photon, but to restate the two items you quoted with more clarity:
- I personally don’t like the Reddit redesign, but a lot of that is because it feels janky and slow. Photon on the other hand is fast as fuck and overall feels better to use than the Reddit redesign. but a new.reddit-style UI is still very divisive, which is why I started this thread as an interest check for this instance’s users
- one of the things the UX designers around here know on contact with lemmy-ui is that a designer wasn’t present at any point during its implementation — it breaks so many conventions for no good reason and is generally miserable to use. Photon does much better in terms of design, and that’s another reason to recommend it
- overall, regardless of my feelings on new.reddit UIs or whether we adopt Photon, it’s still an engineering feat you should be proud of
if you’re curious about the tone of my post, awful.systems is broadly a tech cynicism/sneering instance, created to migrate the reddit communities r/SneerClub and r/TechTakes to Lemmy. we do have a couple of lighter-traffic positivity communities, but in general the house style of this instance is roughly what you’d expect from its origins
this shit looks like new.reddit, which I hate
A bit, but it's fine if the similarities are superficial. At a quick glance it seems to be functionally about on par with the standard UI.
If it's not a lot of work for you to implement, I could be interested in trying it out even though I'm mostly happy with the current UI, believe it or not. I mostly wish it were easier to follow new comments in threads.
it looks like someone with UX experience was at least in proximity to this at the time it was designed?
On this site I can't tell if this is meant as a positive or negative thing.
I can't think of a normal person way to say that I prefer the current ui.
there are old cafes and there are starbucks
Personally, I find the default awful.systems theme godawful, so anything else would be an improvement. (I have just discovered that there are themes in the per-user settings & have switched to something less eye-wincingly painful in fact.)
fwiw I quite like the present UI, I set it to light, works well for me on desktop (I never use this site on my phone)
ugh hackernews style ui/ux bike shedding.
Go away
nerd
you only didn't score a shitty poster ban because of past decent commenting, please improve