Mastodawn

darkstar Jun 16, 2023

Unhappy with Lemmy

https://sh.itjust.works/post/146391

Unhappy with Lemmy - sh.itjust.works

I’m really not happy with Lemmy so far. Its a great community and a cool concept, but the amount of bugs I am experiencing is really starting to put me off. The site constantly updates / glitches, when I try click on something it moves just before I click so I end up clicking on something else. If I open a post, as soon as I go back the entire home feed is different and my sorting preferences have been reset. As someone coming from the refinement from Apollo this really is offputting and makes me want to use Lemmy even less. The people here are great, the federation is cool and I like how decentralized it is, but I think I’m going to log off now and I don’t expect to be back anytime soon. Ps. A functioning app I can download directly from the app store would be great. I’m not interested in progressive web apps or testflight betas, I want something that just works and is well refined.

loren Jun 16, 2023

If you expected someone's fledgling project that's just getting started to be as polished and refined as something that's had thousands of dev hours over the last 5-10 years then that's just bad expectations management. It will get better.

I understand its early days, not faulting the devs here, I'm just expressing how I feel

mars296 Jun 16, 2023

You should give kbin.social a shot. It works better than lemmy currently. I made an account on lemmy.world and kbin.social and end up spending my time on kbin. Even on mobile with no app, I find the user experience better. I am sure it will get better for all instances with time.

can Jun 16, 2023

Kbin definitely has the better front page algorithms atm.

Routhinator Jun 16, 2023

Kbin is lacking the filtering for NSFW content though and there's a lot of sketch making it into the frontpage on kbin is very noticeable so for now I have an account here and on a Lemmy instance and I use Lemmy more. Kbin is for when I can be more careful with my scrolling.

speck Jun 16, 2023

Isn't there a setting in your profile to block NSFW? Or is not working fully?

Goob Jun 16, 2023

Take this with a grain of salt, but I think the issue is that some content isn't tagged as NSFW, so even if it's from an NSFW community, Kbin won't block it unless it's tagged as such.

tal Jun 17, 2023

isn't tagged as NSFW,

I don't think that that's it. I'm on kbin, and the images that some people were complaining about on kbin were blurred, so there must have been some sort of NSFW information associated with them.

zalack Jun 16, 2023

It works. It's just that not everyone is using the tags correctly.

1chemistdown Jun 18, 2023

There is a box you can check or uncheck. It comes checked by default and you have to actively undo it in order to get NSFW. You dirty dog

Dangdoggo Jun 16, 2023

Yeah I definitely prefer kbin, and it has an app which is overall pretty good even on my janky ass unihertz phone.

BedSharkPal Jun 16, 2023

Wait, there's an app?

Dangdoggo Jun 16, 2023

I now can't find the link but I don't think its on the play store. But yes there is an app

https://tinypic.host/i/oe6Stx

TinyPic

Lilkev Jun 16, 2023

Not the original commenter, but @hariette is developing an app at the moment. There's an official kbin magazine (/m/Kmoon, or [email protected])

There's also a Discord server.

Join the Kmoon Discord Server! - Kmoon 🌙 - kbin.social

Announcements, feedback and feature request. Plus I'll be posting technical jargon for the geeks in the room ;)

WhiteOakBayou Jun 16, 2023

What app?

Lilkev Jun 16, 2023

Not the original commenter, but @hariette is developing an app at the moment. There's an official kbin magazine (/m/Kmoon, or [email protected])

There's also a Discord server.

Join the Kmoon Discord Server! - Kmoon 🌙 - kbin.social

Announcements, feedback and feature request. Plus I'll be posting technical jargon for the geeks in the room ;)

hakdragon Jun 16, 2023

kbin isn't bad, but it's been plagued with 500 errors - probably due to the massive influx of new users/instances.

Rajaat Jun 16, 2023

Someone on the Discord told me KBin gained 30000 users in the last 24 hours.

tal Jun 17, 2023

Over the past few days, I've had waves where kbin.social gets really hammered, but then it performs fine after that. Someone suggested that it might be when users here in the US have their peak activity times, that it's getting hit much harder then.

tox_solid Jun 16, 2023

This is also my fediverse origin story.

Entropywins Jun 16, 2023

Makes sense that kbin works better as kbin actually let me register I had trouble even trying to register on 3 different instances before someone recommended kbin because, and I quote, "it just works."