important instance shit

yeah this is how @self posts when he likes things

ah yep, I can see how my post could come off to someone unfamiliar with my writing style. I added a bullet point with my (generally positive) impression on Photon, but to restate the two items you quoted with more clarity:

• I personally don’t like the Reddit redesign, but a lot of that is because it feels janky and slow. Photon on the other hand is fast as fuck and overall feels better to use than the Reddit redesign. but a new.reddit-style UI is still very divisive, which is why I started this thread as an interest check for this instance’s users
• one of the things the UX designers around here know on contact with lemmy-ui is that a designer wasn’t present at any point during its implementation — it breaks so many conventions for no good reason and is generally miserable to use. Photon does much better in terms of design, and that’s another reason to recommend it
• overall, regardless of my feelings on new.reddit UIs or whether we adopt Photon, it’s still an engineering feat you should be proud of

if you’re curious about the tone of my post, awful.systems is broadly a tech cynicism/sneering instance, created to migrate the reddit communities r/SneerClub and r/TechTakes to Lemmy. we do have a couple of lighter-traffic positivity communities, but in general the house style of this instance is roughly what you’d expect from its origins