I plan on leaving the site design and component styling to other, more skilled UI devs, while I work mostly on the auth, services, params, and overall back-end structure.
If you want to overhaul the UI and actually improve the usability you’ll have to start by researching and prototyping the new UI design. You seem to be focusing very hard on which technologies to use for your rework, as developers tend to do, but eventually those choices are insignificant compared to the choices you make at the UI design level. And none of them matter if the end result isn’t accessible.
I also think that the Lemmy frontend needs a serious overhaul, but aside from some bugs the problems are mostly on a UI/UX level and these need to be addressed first, before one can even begin development. Currently, as a software developer, I was utterly confused when first confronted with the Lemmy UI. I can only imagine how this would feel to a tech-illiterate user.
I don’t think the basic ideas of the Lemmy UI are bad, but the design needs some serious work to better communicate these ideas. I’ve been wanting to make some design mockups for a rework myself, but at the moment I’m a bit held up in 2 other open source projects I’m working on…
I’m not sure what kind of point you’re trying to make here. Obviously every wildfire ultimately originates from an ignition source, be that a human made fire, some glass focusing the sunlight, a cigarette or whatever other source you can think of. They don’t spawn into existence.
Drought caused by extreme heat makes it much easier for these small fires to spread into an actual wildfire though. It’s not mutually exclusive.