I migrated over to Lemmy from Reddit, and while I am excited to use a new platform and explore new and continuing communities from Reddit, using this app honestly confuses me. Part of the reason is app design. But I understand that many apps are newer and may be rough around the edges. Nevertheless, here are some things I’m confused about how to even do:

  • How do I visit communities of which explicit hyperlinks I know? Sometimes I can find them by typing in search, but why can’t I just go somewhere by typing in like an address bar or something?
  • I signed up at the VLemmy instance, but why are there menus everywhere for the lemmy.world instance everywhere that is practically useless to me? Can I make them go away?
  • How do I navigate through different communities? When I click a link that I expect to take me to a community my email app pops up instead and I don’t know how to get around. Do I have to type everything into search when I want to navigate to a new community that I’m not subscribed to?
  • Is there a way to re-hide NSFW posts once I’ve clicked them to make them visible?

Then there’s some design things I’m legitimately confused about why they’re like that. It’s entirely too cumbersome to reach saved posts. I have to go to my profile, then tap on the bookmark icon on the upper left. I feel like there should be a way to access that easier. There isn’t even an indication about where that is supposed to be so finding out that’s where saved posts are took awhile.

Sorry if it seems I’m too critical about this stuff. Coming over from Reddit does mean being a bit spoiled about this stuff since many Reddit apps have had longer to figure app design out. Still, hopefully some of these things are at least addressable towards making a more user friendly experience in the future.

  • Dawn@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago
    1. You have to type them in the search, if the instance you are on (VLemmy for you) has not had a user subsribe to that community you will need to find it by searching the direct link, which can be found on the page for that community under the name.
    2. Can’t help with this one, I’m on lemmy.world so I don’t know what this problem is.
    3. Right now you have to search for it, I think the email thing is a bug, and will hopefully be sorted out at some point.
    4. I haven’t messed around with NSFW enough to answer this one

    Edit: here’s the dev mentioning point 2

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      1 year ago

      I guess he’s talking about the default lemmy.world option that is present in this app, even if you sign into a different instance. To remove lemmy.world, go to Settings, then Accounts, and long press lemmy.world and remove it.