we already collectively dislike a substantial number of 0.18+'s UI decisions, most of which are minor but are already adding up to be that much more annoying collectively. maybe we can sand some of these off with theming in the future. for now though please hang with this and petition them to merge better decisions in the future, thanks
This post makes the Beehaw admins look really bad, to be honest. Personally, I had not even really noticed any big differences, so if you hadn’t told me I wouldn’t even know about them. The small differences that I did notice seem like improvements to me.
However, this post seems to be needlessly criticizing the Lemmy devs without any actual constructive feedback. The post is nothing more than “We would like to make you aware that the experience got worse and you SHOULD BLAME the devs!!” to me. It doesn’t help anybody. It just makes you look very unprofessional, entitled and will damage your relation with the Lemmy devs. If you can’t code and improve Lemmy yourself that way, that’s totally fine. Don’t like an update? That fine too! But if you want to be actually helpful and have your voice heard, go to Lemmy’s Github page and give the devs constructive feedback. Report bugs when you run into issues or do a feature request for changes you’d like to see. Enter discussions about other bugs/requests. There are so many things you could do without the need to be a programmer.
But don’t post a vague complaint to your community, pointing fingers and hoping to get more people angry to pressure the devs into what you want. I came to Beehaw because it promised to be a safespace. A positive place. The fact that an admin posted this complaint here doesn’t reflect that idea at all to me.
I really hope you guys can see why this behaviour is not desirable and a one-time thing. Otherwise, I can’t keep supporting Beehaw and would have to leave the instance for another, which would be a shame.
Assuming good faith needs to go all directions and we’re asking for a little bit of empathy to vent some frustrations when we see them. Not everything we say is with an admin hat on. This is explicitly in the chat community, and it’s specifically titled ‘informal’. We don’t desire to be stuffy and impersonal all the time because then you have no insight into who we are as people or the issues we go through.
Lots of toxic behavior in social media is people venting frustrations. So in that sense what you are doing is not that weird.
Now think about the community you say you want to foster here and the values you say you want uphold.
This should not be Reddit or Twitter, right? We expect better from people, right?
Please, think about the optics, reflect and do not double down, unless you are 100% sure this is the kind of criticism you are ok with having in Beehaw, because is what you are going to get.
not a good sign to find myself on a platform where fellow admins are criticizing the developers like this. in a healthy ecosystem we’d leverage more formal channels to help direct the development. if you haven’t already, it might be good to document the regressions and start/join the discussions on github or matrix (link for it can be found on the Lemmy github page). i’ve used these in the past for this project and the devs were reasonably quick to reply and apply fixes.
not a good sign to find myself on a platform where fellow admins are criticizing the developers like this. in a healthy ecosystem we’d leverage more formal channels to help direct the development.
if lemmy can’t handle us personally saying we dislike a significant number of the software-wide UI choices made by 0.18+, an upgrade that mind you we can’t go back on, i feel like that speaks to a much less healthy ecosystem than this post. in any case, they’re busy, we’re busy, and most of the fixes we want aren’t in the pipeline at all because they’re administrative in nature, not cosmetic.
Oh no, criticism! How will Lemmy ever survive!
Wait until you find out that at least one of the main authors is a literal tankie
That seems like a bit of a needlessly hostile response to someone who was offering constructive criticism and encouraging others to do the same.
Didn’t mean to come off as hostile. I just don’t think it’s quite that bad of a sign to see admins criticizing Lemmy on Lemmy instead of only “on official channels”, like admins aren’t allowed to criticize the platform where us plebs can see it
Constructively criticize – remember that the decisions they made seemed like the right ones to them. Remember the human. And be specific: “Make better decisions” isn’t useful, but “now that Lemmy does this, unfortunately that happens for me as a result” might just result in the changes you need.
I’d ask for you to remember that we’re humans too - we just put a bunch of resources into a very messy upgrade. We’ve been asking for plenty of other fixes, busy running a website, collecting moderators, setting up services for our users and to manage the site, ensuring that emails send because the app doesn’t notify approval/denials, and in general scaling up for the unprecedented growth. We also had to defederate and caught a lot of flak for it, have had to deal with a lot of unsavory users, and in general have had very few people sympathize with our position.
I think it’s absolutely fair to be upset about changes and to vent that frustration. I also think it’s fair to point out it’s not constructive, but please see it from our perspective- it’s another headache we don’t know how to deal with right now, and it’s incredibly frustrating. It’s upsetting to see parts of the platform regressing, many of our concerns glossed over, and to face pushback from many users not even from our instance.
Idk everything looks better to me? Font size looks about the same, I can see all the buttons. Scrolling is a lot smoother. This is on Safari iOS
What’s worse about it?
