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Maybe its just me but I'm not a massive fan of the lemmy 'front-page', it feels too squashed horizontally, and also too vertically spaced-out. The font feels too big,

Or maybe I just hate all change and want it to look more like old.reddit.com...

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I understand why in 2023 running Lemmy (Rust) over Kbin (PHP) is more appealing, but Kbin looks and feels much nicer to me.

I have been trying out Tildes and I absolutely love their UI/UX! It’s minimal, very easy to read, yet offers great functionality. I think it can also be used with JS disabled.

HN could learn a bit from it (at least make the collapse button a slightly bigger target for mobile)

> make the collapse button a slightly bigger target

And the vote arrows! People downvote when they wanted to upvote and vice-versa.

What are some other reasons to choose kbin over lemmy?

Yup. It's the main thing making me want to use kbin.social. Even there I had to use Stylebot to force a wider layout but the default is much better.

I can't quite understand what the obsession with narrow layouts is these days. It's not like most of these sites don't have separate mobile layouts. Are they really just lazy about design and can't be bothered testing reflow of their text?

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