2y ago

I made the mistake of checking Reddit (using my last few days of Apollo) and came across a complaint about Lemmy that flabbergasted me

Do people actually like all of the overdesigned clutter to the point where it makes them not want to switch sites?

To me, the stripped down clarity on Lemmy is a feature. I remember back in the day when people flocked to Facebook from MySpace, in large part because they were sick of eye gouging customized pages and just wanted a simple, consistent interface. The content, not the buttons to click on it are the draw right?

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I use a grease monkey script to make it basically identically to old Reddit. It’s wonderful. Highly recommended
- Which script do you like?
  
  I'm using the compact version of lemmy_monkey and a script I wrote to force external links to open in new tabs (reddit did this automatically so I constantly forget to press the middle mouse button and then get annoyed that my lemmy scrolling is gone)
  Compact lemmy_monkey: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469093-compact-lemmy-to-old-reddit-re-format-observer GM-Open-NewTab: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469196-gm-lemmy-newtab
  Both observe on all http*:/// but they both use the same "isLemmy" check to determine if any logic should actually execute, so while it seems a bit rough at first they are not doing anything nefarious or unnecessary besides a single js comparison of the head elements.
  
  These are the most important ones I use.
  Kbin Enhancement Script User: @SirPsychoMantis
  Add domains to magazines and users for federated content
  Collapse comments
  Collapse replies
  Replies start collapsed
  Move comment box to top
  Fix comment buttons and add a cancel button
  Blur / Hide NSFW domains (thanks to u/leel)
  Hide random posts
  OP tag in comments
  All features can be toggled on and off
  Improved Collapsible Comments User: @artillect
  Improves the comment tree layout and adds a line that lets you collapse replies
  Floating Subs List User: @raltsm4k
  Adds a floating subscriptions pane to kbin similar to Reddit
  Supports filtering by name and sorting by subscribe date (default) or alphabetically
  Kbin-Unsquash User: @shazbot
  Unsquash inline images in threads by replacing with source image and downscaling to 50%

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