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.

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You were right about score + ratio, and the complainers are a vocal minority.

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I’d thought that originally, because a lot of former reddit (now lemmy) apps use score + ratio, but it seems like people really do prefer the simple very old reddit style of upvote + downvote.

Either way it’ll be configurable in the next lemmy update.

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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.

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Anything but upvote % as default, because many instances disable downvotes.

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We’re still working on it, but we’ll add logic into the front ends to make sure these settings can’t conflict.

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I prefer seeing up vote and down vote counts separately and nothing else.

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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.

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