• Everything’s so smaller now
  • All avatars are a tiny square (but uses their original, circular shape if you go to the page where you can view the avatar fully)
  • “OP” flair like Reddit (also looks like reddit), as opposed to “Creator” flair which felt more original
  • The post links and fediverse icons are now next to the username as opposed to the upvote-downvote-share icon
  • The vaporwave theme makes the “subscribe”, “create a post” buttons more rounded… they look just like Reddit’s “subscribe”, “create a post” buttons!
  • Soviet Snake@lemmygrad.ml
    17·
    1 year ago

    I’m sure they are just trying stuff out and it will not be definitive, it’s way faster so I can live with these changes until they come with a better GUI, they are doing a great job.

    I think that if they make it just a bit bigger it looks really good.

  • albigu@lemmygrad.ml
    13·
    1 year ago

    I miss darkly-red actually having red bits. Until it’s back I guess I can suffer in i386 hell.

  • nour@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    Why’d they change it, it was fine as it was

    I want old version back :(

  • EuthanatosMurderhobo@lemmygrad.ml
    111·
    1 year ago

    Maybe I’ve been conditioned by years of YouTube shedding it’s skin, but I don’t have strong feelings about this one way or another.

  • ShiningWing@lemmygrad.ml
    91·
    1 year ago

    I don’t really understand all the complaints about the text size, it seems about in line with most other sites now instead of being oddly larger

    I also really appreciate there being a bit less padding on the posts because barely any posts could fit in a single screen before, it feels a lot more sensible now

    Using more width now is also really nice, it was kinda silly how small it crunched down even on relatively small monitors

    • Aria 🏳️‍⚧️🇧🇩 [she]@lemmygrad.mlOP
      8·
      1 year ago

      Just because we’re trying to be open-source/fediverse equivalent of Reddit means that we must copy absolutely everything from Reddit, yes? Honestly wish the devs gave you the option to go back to the original, more cozier, comfier UI (when you wanted) than forcing down compact, corporate-like UI onto all of us.

      • ShiningWing@lemmygrad.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        I didn’t say that we should copy everything from reddit, just that I like most of these particular changes (though I agree on the “OP” flair change being unnecessary), I find the denser layout a lot more usable on desktop without being quite as compact as old reddit

  • The Free Penguin@lemmygrad.ml
    81·
    1 year ago

    just use i386 theme

    • opposes roundrect worship
    • nice color scheme
    • doesn’t distort ascii art

    i also like how yall made the metadata more compact :) i was kinda being annoying in that rantpost, thx for adding themes back

  • Red Wizard 🪄@lemmygrad.ml
    81·
    1 year ago

    90% of my time is spent using Jerboa so as long as the gets/posts are fast (and they seem much faster) that’s all I’m going to care about.

  • NothingButBits@lemmygrad.ml
    71·
    1 year ago

    I like the changes, it felt the website was designed for mobile only. The space can still be optimized for 1080p, there’s still a lot of empty space on the sides. But maybe make the buttons and avatars a bit bigger?

  • darkcalling@lemmygrad.ml
    84·
    1 year ago

    I appreciate all the work but yes, this is truly awful and unusable. My eyes are straining from how small things are. Text should be bigger, should fill more of the page, etc.

    Even if you’re going for that awful new mobile friendly layout all sites like wikipedia, etc are foisting these days where all content is shoved into the center in a square as if we still live in a 4:3 aspect CRT world, the text, icons, preview images, etc needs em-biggifying (though a reasonable amount, new reddit for example goes too far in the other direction).

    • Aria 🏳️‍⚧️🇧🇩 [she]@lemmygrad.mlOP
      4·
      1 year ago

      Yeah tell me about it, this place looked way cozier and comfier with bigger texts from before. People here are complaining about big texts like scrolling a little more below’s gonna cost them half their life. Jesus Christ.

      • darkcalling@lemmygrad.ml
        4·
        1 year ago

        I don’t mind compactness. I just dislike how it looks here.

        1. horizontal space is nowhere near fully utilized, the empty space is wasted. If you’re going to use smaller text with the excuse you can fit more info this is undercut by leaving all this space on the sides eerily empty.

        2. If the screen real estate issue is fixed the smaller text needs something to be a bit more readable. A 1pt font size increase, shadows/outlines, I don’t know I’m not a UI expert I just feel this is for me worse than the old one.

        This is coming from someone who exclusively used old Reddit by the way. I also don’t mind the old look (compare hex bear right now to this site in terms of screen utilization, readability, etc).

        Needs tweaking.