We’re adding the ability to customize this in the upcoming release, but I’m wondering what people think would be a good default.
The 4 pieces of showable/hideable info are: Upvotes, Downvotes, Score, and Upvote %.
In Jerboa, I had a temporary default (until the next lemmy release), of Score + Upvote %, but people seem to dislike this a lot.
I’ll check back on this in a few days to see the result.
I’m not really sure what any of this means but if something has one upvote and one down vote it should show that?
I think it should display only the score. But when I hover with my mouse it should show the upvote and downvote count.
The same goes to the mobile version, but instead of hovering with a mouse I can hold my finger on the score and the app displays the upvote/downvote count.
I like a more simple and clean approach, I believe this helps bring less tech-savvy users to lemmy.
I think score, then in smaller less noticeable text, upvotes and downvotes. I don’t think upvote % adds much value as you have the information to calculate it already.
My original motivation was trying to limit information overload, and go from 3 pieces of score info, down to 2. This will all be configurable, but I’d like the default to be really simple.
I don’t think you’ll ever get a concrete answer on this because different people treat even basic numbers differently none the less assigning value to them. I like upvoted/downvote view because I like being able to see what’s controversial. It means a comment is both important to show a dividing line but also might be misleading.
Up + Down. That way you can’t use trolling/harassment to sway the perception of a post.
Put it this way: Do you want the nazis who downvote everything left of Hitler to have any sway over a conversation?
The way it is in lemmy-ui now is fine.
Difficult to say until we’ve seen it in action for a while. Could we trial each for a while and then ask us again?
Upvotes and downvotes, but also add the YouTube lightsaber which shows the ratio?
Up and down preferably, anything else is just worse.
Otherwise overridable by user preference would be great.
1)Big score with up/downvote at the side, and also the ability to see the votes for everyone.
Or
2)Big score and the ability to see the votes for everyone
Is this a lemmy-ui and thus a client issue or a lemmy issue?
It will affect all lemmy apps, if they support this setting.
If the server’s going to enforce this then I feel like the default should be total up and down, as all the others can be calculated from those two numbers by the clients. Other methods I would foresee be used by instances that somewhat wants to hide or fuzz the numbers, so that’d be an opt-in thing that defaults to maximum transparency.
Its a user-specific setting, not a server setting. And this is just a preference for the default, it’ll still be configurable.
Anything but upvote % as default, because many instances disable downvotes.
We’re still working on it, but we’ll add logic into the front ends to make sure these settings can’t conflict.
Up+down. Can’t say I’m a fan of the %
Yeah, I was confused about what it was (I thought it was some indication of how fresh the comment was for sorting purposes). A percent isn’t interesting when most comments have like 5 votes or whatever, and it’s still not that interesting even if there are more.
Even though we don’t use it on this instance, I do find the up vote and down vote counts the most interesting and transparent
I honestly love the way Alexandrite does the interface on Lemmy.world. I used photon for awhile too, but the way Alexandrite does voting made a positive overall experience that was more pleasant long term, (a.Lemmy.world & p.lemmy.world). Alexandrite simply ignores the down vote count and displays the total. Overall negativity is not clearly seen unless the count goes below zero.
Long term this makes a more positive overall experience across the spectrum of emotions in real life, especially for someone struggling through disability. The only way I would change this is to add a negative vote view in the … extras.
