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> the UI and UX of open source tools almost always sucks. One interesting outcome of Reddit changing their API pricing was long-time 3rd-party Reddit apps shut
by 8organicbits 3y ago
> the UI and UX of open source tools almost always sucks.
One interesting outcome of Reddit changing their API pricing was long-time 3rd-party Reddit apps shutting down. Some of those added Lemmy support to their existing UI and importantly thought through new user behavior (like showing a default instance vs forcing users to sign up).
There's still work to be done, but if we're talking about the different between the Official Reddit client and the (now defunct) Boost for Reddit, the latter had better UX. Now that Boost only supports Lemmy and the Reddit app keeps getting enshittified the UX argument is harder to make.