I disliked that Tesseract was a bit of a busy mess, visually. I genuinely wanted to like it because it definitely added several useful features. I even self-hosted it for a while. But the default Lemmy UI is so much more simple/streamlined and handles 95% of what I want to do anyway. I would only use Tesseract on occasion, when I needed to perform some action that I knew Tesseract handled better than the default Lemmy UI. But default PieFed supports every feature I liked out of Tesseract anyway, so I didn't miss it at all when I switched from a Lemmy instance to a PieFed instance.

[–] SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Wait, people are actually out here daily driving the default Lemmy web UI instead of using their own client?

[–] brotundspiele@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

When I'm on the toilet, I use a client app on my phone, but when I'm at my desk, I use my desktop and the web ui. Why would I use an app there?

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

There're alternative frontends that your admin. can install (and some designed so you can use without them being installed on your particular instance: https://phtn.app/ (https://phtn.app/accounts/login, to login)); no need for any app. (outside your browser) to be installed for you to use a different web UI other than the default one.

[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 3 points 4 days ago

Yeah, that's a pretty common setup. I'd estimate about half of users just stick with the default web UI.

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 days ago

Definitely why wouldn't I?

[–] eneff@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 days ago

yes, me.

[–] TwilightKiddy@programming.dev 6 points 5 days ago

Have you tried Alexandrite?