We’ve got a lot of Lemmy app options rolling out soon—it’s exciting!
What do you wish was better about the current way you browse Lemmy, and what features do you hope to have down the road?
- Order comments by hot/new/votes
- make it really obvious how to sign-up and sign-in
- linking between feddit should not open an in-app browser
- highlight comments/posts your account has made
- allow us to block all NSFW posts from the all feed
- allow us to post GIFs from the Google keyboard
Connect for Lemmy has hide NSFW and orders comments. I think others might do this as well
I’m mostly waiting for marking posts as read as you scroll by and hiding read posts (but only in your feed). I think this is especially important with the federated content that might come in later than when I “scrolled past” the point in time it would appear in my feed.
“come in later”? You want a feed that live updates?
They probably mean that you can’t just scroll through and say “okay, I have seen everything created up to the point when I loaded this page” because some posts created earlier might only appear in your feed later.
No.
But say, I’m currently looking at my Subscriptions sorted by New. I doomscroll until I see stuff that is 10 hours old. While I do that posts could come in that are 5 hours old. But the next time I doomscroll I wouldn’t go that far back because I think I’ve already seen stuff that old.
If what I have seen already was automatically marked as read and not showing for me, I would still see the 5 hours old stuff because that wouldn’t have been marked as read.
I agree! This was a great feature that was on multiple reddit apps that I really miss here. Hoping this is something that rolls out soon.
Being able to jump back a page without snapping to the top is the only issue I have with the PWA set up I’ve got. Otherwise it’s great as is.
Honestly, Memmy works pretty amazingly… I was surprised, because last time I tried it it was… empty. It’s REALLY good now.
I agree with this wholeheartedly. The PWA is fantastic, but IMHO it should overlay posts and comments over the feed instead of opening a new page. That way you don’t have to fiddle with scrolling back up.
Oh and, images should also open in a model, and not awkwardly move the page.
Multi-lemmy. I really miss having my custom feeds made with the multi reddit tool,.
This would be so useful to group related communities from different instances as well.
keyword filters, so you can avoid posts about “trump” or “hitler” and other things that annoy you
Connect has this
am using connect since a few hours. it’s really god. thanks for the advice
An option to merge the same post from two different communities in a way that preserves some semblance of federation while also making it so the same headline doesn’t appear a half dozen times in my feed. Maybe by merging together comment sections and putting an indicator next to each comment chain showing which instance it came from.
Something like Reddits “other discussions” button would be enough for me, just pop up to a list of other posts of the same link and list how many comments in each so I know which ones to click on.
Off the top of my head…
- Easy user following
- Auto markdown
- Download image/video
- Share as image
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Subscribe to whole instances, not just individual communities, that are not Federated by the instance my account is logged into.
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Easily block communities from the ALL feed, without 3 or 4 clicks
, that are not Federated by the instance my account is logged into.
How do you imagine that would work? Federation is what enables you to interact with anything on other instances in the first place.
Or do you just mean “add all communities on a remote instance to the list of communities you can search for locally at once”?
Honestly I have no idea, I’ve only been using lemmy for a couple days. I have an account at lemmy.ml. But if lemmy doesn’t federate with instanceX or instanceY, then I have to sign up at those instances as well, which I think is kinda against what lemmy is about. Or go through and manually add all the communities from those instances (and if a new community on that instance pops up I won’t be subscribed.)
For point two, Connect for Lemmy just added a block button from the three dot menu on the feed.
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Apart from the ones already mentioned,
- being able to collapse all threads in a post to only show parent-level comments
- keyboard shortcuts ala RES (esp the J-K navigation)
- more themes (the default ones suck)
- more image improvements
For your 2nd point, I made a script. It works with arrows so you may or may not like it. Also I see a PR was opened yesterday on Lemmy-ui for J-K navigation
I’d like some tablet/large screen optimizations now that I have a Pixel Fold! Sync for Reddit and Infinity are example apps that do it right in my opinion
- Favourite communities (to appear on top of the list);
- Better video support;
- Better sorting algorithm;
- Search for posts (most apps still don’t support);
On top of that, I think the most crucial is to have a very fluid and stable interface, which I think is not the case for most apps.
Connect for Lemmy has favorites (never used it) and search in Local, All, or a specific Community
I haven’t seen anyone mention this yet, but the biggest feature for me would be an automatic redirect to your current instance if you click on a fedi link to another instance
It’s annoying when someone links a post from another instance, and I click the link but I can’t interact since I’m not logged in on that URL
Basically, if you’re on one instance and click on a link to a post from another instance, it should open that post on your current instance. The desktop version of Lemmy needs this too.
This is really my biggest point of contention with the fediverse atm. Needs to be easier to interact across instances without copying, pasting, editing, or typing in URLs
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Ability to choose the default sort for comments
For web: better theming, for app: i18n, for both: much smoother subscription to other instances.
I’d mainly just say
- multi-lemmy similar to the multireddits.
- consider a post read as you scroll past it.
- this is probably app specific, but some mobile clients have trouble with certain links embedding. It varies per app, but I’d hope for this to be fixed along the process so things are more readable.
- something that combines post comment sections over multiple instances. This one’s probably more complex but I’d hope to keep the decentralization but still have all the activity in one place snd not see it multiple times.
Other things are already really good.
