Hey folks!

I’ve been steadily working through the roadmap for lemmy-ui-next (which is a new alternative Lemmy frontend), and it’s getting to a point where I think https://next.lemm.ee is becoming quite usable. I’ve been personally using it as my main Lemmy frontend for several weeks now, and I know there are a few other brave users doing the same, so at this point, I’m confident enough to ask the wider lemm.ee population to try it out and share some honest feedback.

If you’re at all interested in this project, I would massively appreciate it if you could spend some time using https://next.lemm.ee and letting me know how you feel about it. I’m interested to hear about things like:

  • are you running into any issues or bugs
  • are there any things that generally annoy you
  • are you missing any features
  • what would it take for lemmy-ui-next to become your preferred frontend
  • anything else that comes to mind

Please keep in mind that this is still a work in progress - some features are planned but not implemented yet (see the roadmap linked above for more details), other features are half-finished and may be a bit buggy still!

Any feedback would really help me out, so please don’t hesitate to share!

  • darakan@lemm.ee
    10·
    7 months ago

    I like this a lot in general. It is reminiscent of old reddit which is a style I like. Unfortunately it suffers from the same major issue I have with old reddit. Namely that the content is left aligned and there is just a crazy amount of white space. It’s probably not an issue for many, but as someone who has a large 4k monitor, it means my neck is constantly turned to the left if I have my browser in full-screen mode. Centering the content some would be greatly beneficial. Hacker News and Lobsters do this, although imo HN could be better about it.

    Screenshot with large white space amount on 4k resolution of lemmy-ui-next

    • aleph@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      7 months ago

      Agreed. Use of space could be better. Or, if you are going to have all that space in the middle, do what Alexandrite does and display post content in a new middle column so that the entire width of the screen is utilized.

      Alexandrite screenshot

    • Abnorc@lemm.ee
      2·
      7 months ago

      I think I agree. The previous UI is just so much easier for me to read and look at.