Asklemmy

44919 readers

2156 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
[email protected]: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

How can we make Lemmy easier for new users? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

64 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I'm curious to hear if you have any thoughts or ideas about this. As a developer I understand very well how Lemmy works, and cant tell at all what might be difficult or confusing.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Most people here now come from Reddit, the interfaces are similar so I don't think most people would find it that difficult.

Maybe have a tutorial that highlights key buttons and describes what they do?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

It would be nice if people who dont use Reddit could also use Lemmy without problems. What would you say are the key buttons which are not obvious?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, I agree that people who come here from other places should have an easy time. I think the UI is simple and intuitive overall, but an optional tutorial for new users might be good for some people.

Federation is not a common feature so I think 'subscribed', 'local' and 'all' could be highlighted/explained/described.

One of the first things a lot of social media apps do is get you to subscribe to content/communities you are interested in. So maybe you could highlight the 'Communities' button and say that you can find communities you are interested in.

You could also highlight that clicking the username in the top right takes you to post/comment history and settings.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

Could you please open an issue in the lemmy-ui repo for this?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

Sure, done.