I was about to say “unless I really love it and use it everywhere like NixOS” but my first post about NixOS here called it fucking incomprehensible so uh

I’m assuming it’s some kind of stupid growth hack on Reddit’s part

this is a solid explanation for most of the worst parts of reddit really

I know your code isn’t malicious; in general I don’t recommend, write a Nix package for, and deploy malware. the threat model here is that the infrastructure that hosts phtn.app gets compromised by an external malicious actor, who then swaps your code out for a version that hijacks JWTs and steals credentials, which would be a big mess for me to clean up. given how many best practices around JWTs and security best practices the lemmy backend ignores (and of course none of this is a Photon problem, these are just the cards the backend has dealt us both), I prefer an ounce of paranoia over a security event that would be very hard to recover from

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

yep! and given how laggy and janky I remember that UI being, I’m still shocked at how snappy and solid Proton feels

they helpfully saved us a trip by posting all their crypto and race science shit here, rather than on their home instance

I’ve still got dibs on LessJank

awful.patch, a diff file that quickly grows to be larger than the base lemmy code