I’ve heard many people saying that the front-end looks old and needs more work, but I’ve never heard someone describe how it could look better. To me, it looks perfectly fine. I wish it had a card layout similar to libreddit, but aside from that, I think it’s nice. If people want a completely different look, then there’s lemmyBB, and there will probably be other front-ends in the future. However, we should hear opinions about which styles people want.
It occurred to me the hamburger button only shows on small displays. Nonetheless, I don’t think it needs to be anything too fancy. Just a little tweaking to signify “this is a control element”, similar to the sidebars. I just tweaked the CSS in dev tools and took a screenshot:
Also affects the element on wider screens
A couple of other things I noticed while writing this reply. It took me a bit to figure out that the [preview] button can be clicked again to return to “edit” mode. I think it the button should “edit” to indicate it’s function during preview mode.
I’m not a fan of how the search button immediately redirects to the advanced search. Personally, I’d prefer a text box with execute (the magnifying glass) and advanced buttons.
One last thing (for now lol) I noticed while reading comments is that some of the control icons are hidden without first clicking the menu button to expand the list. It seems like an unnecessary extra step when there’s ample space for all the icons anyway.