Comparisons:
- Does most things; does none of them particularly well
- Comes with the system
- Most people think that’s just how the platform is
- Annoying bugs take forever to get fixed
- Only wears 15 pieces of flair
- Extremely annoying to use after using a better system for any amount of time
I’ve seen very few 3rd party clients that are not miles ahead of Lemmy-UI. Of those that weren’t ahead of L-UI, most of them weren’t even finished, so it’s hardly a fair comparison.
If you’re reading this on Lemmy-UI, you might want to check out https://lemmyapps.com and see what you’ve been missing. I’m not affiliated with that, it’s just a good resource.
I actually kind of like that the stock UI is just web pages, and you click things, and the things you click take you to new pages.* I may be in the minority in this, but I don’t feel that everything needs to have a whole new UI that has to “boot up” while it loads its libraries, and then takes over the browser area with its own special little UI with all kinds of different scrolling behaviors for different columns, and little animations when you do things, and copying the URL from the browser doesn’t really work.
(* Some service worker fuckups aside)
I don’t love that visually, it looks like a circa-2005 student web page project, and it has “themes” which just change to a differently unappealing set of colors, but life is like that, it is fine.