This has to be a bad joke.

> Also don't enter an email when trying to join initially, if you can. The UI waits for the email to send before returning

Sorry, this is supposed to be a viable alternative to Reddit?

> This has to be a bad joke.

There are plenty of rough edges, that the community is finding.

> Sorry, this is supposed to be a viable alternative to Reddit?

It is an alternative that removes a problem that Reddit users were facing. Lack of Control. It gives control back to the users. I wouldn't say it's perfect but if a person doesn't want a company being completely in control of everything relating to that platform. The fediverse is that solution

Based on your reply, it's clear that lemmy will never be anything other than an afterthought.

This isn't a VC startup. This isn't even funded i believe. Why the hostility?

2) My general frustration with FOSS projects having zero interest in good UX/UI design, resulting in a lack of prioritization for basic stuff like this

Like, if Lemmy has no interest in being a viable option to most people, then fine. People just need to stop pretending that it is.

Sure, but i think viable is in the eye of the beholder. In this case it's bleeding edge software not even 1.0 yet, with a massive influx of sudden, demanding users, and no dedicated employees or income (i think). I'd counter that people need to set their expectations accordingly.

For those people unable to deal with reality on this subject Reddit still exists. Stay on it if you want VC polish and the funding that requires. No one is out here making purposefully bad software.

Your frustrations seem better spent on individuals arguing everyone move to Lemmy than it is Lemmy (devs) directly. Stay on Reddit, it sounds like you prefer the VC experience. There's nothing wrong with that.

The FOSS devs are just doing the best they can with the time and resources they have.

It is currently being worked on through a grant from https://nlnet.nl/

https://lemmy.ml/comment/479066

> When our open source grant from NLNet runs out at the end of this year, we will have to switch to full community funding, probably via yearly funding drives. Currently we only have two full-time devs, @[email protected] and I, but could potentially add more to our little worker coop as we grow.

> ...

> For the past three years dessalines and I have been funded to work on Lemmy full-time by generous support from the NLnet foundation. These donations are paid out when we implement certain new features. But now we are busy answering questions, reviewing pull requests and urgentlyfixing problems. That means we are unable to work on the milestones agreed with NLnet, and won’t receive payments from them. We are increasingly reliant on user donations to pay our bills. These donations currently add up to 1500 Euros per month, which is not even enough to pay minimum wage for the two of us. Hopefully more users can consider donating, so that we can put our full attention to making Lemmy better for everyone, and possibly add more developers to our worker co-op in the future.

What is your personal gripe against Lemmy? Lemmy is a FOSS project developed by volunteers. The instances are run by volunteers for fun. It may become something or may not become anything. But the people developing and maintaining Lemmy will have fun regardless, I'm sure.

And all that hard work and fun is offered as a gift to you and me if we want to join one of their instances. You and I don't have to. But that option is there as a gift. Why are you so angry with this gift? If you don't like it, don't use it!

Like I am not going to join Lemmy because I don't like the UI/UX issues of Lemmy and I also don't like how communities are dependent on specific instances. If the instance goes down or rogue, the community is affected. But that doesn't mean I am going to disparage their efforts which they are putting in to serve their own needs. If I was so motivated to improve the condition of their UI/UX, I will send pull requests, not talk about it. Talk is cheap!

This is a volunteer-driven FOSS project for christ's sake! Nobody is pretending anything about that!

What have they been doing since 2019?

Your ToS mentions Australian law so going to guess I am just as unwelcome here as everywhere else

But it would need to be heavily moderated. There are already some "trees" communities. Subscribing to them from our instance I wouldn't have a problem with

Edit: position: no, unless we get other moderators and admins we can trust. Currently it's just 2 people doing admin n moderation. Having a community like that may be a lot more involved that I would want to be.

I am not using auto-generated passwords. Like I said the browser is not sending any request at all to the server.

I noticed there's a web socket connection and when you submit the info goes there (not a separate request). Then the client gets something about a captcha and the spinner spins forever.