my feedback after using Lemmy for 2 weeks on SMARTPHONE :
- Annoying menu when you write ‘:’ on a post.
- a top bar with buttons ’ Home’ , ‘search’ ‘New post’ , ‘Inbox’, Menu(profile, new community, about…) will be better than just ‘Lemmy …Menu’
- Text too small when we write a post. should be the same than the text size you use to display a post
- Under a post : just few buttons as ‘reply’, ‘Edit’ and button ‘…’ (advanced menu for ‘report’, view user profile…)
- Replace ‘preview’ with just ‘post’ . Preview is useless Thank you
Yup, advanced options under the post should definitely be moved elsewhere, bc right now it’s easy to accidentally ban someone, appoint as mod etc
Maybe have an inline ellipsis menu?
I’m not sure, maybe. Anything which requires more than one click to perform those actions would be significantly better.
/u/AgreeableLandscape I could add an ellipsis menu.
That would be great! Thanks!!
To add my thoughts on some of these:
- Signal, Matrix, discord, all use
:for emoji shortnames. But I found that they only show the menu after 2 characters, I can see if thats possible. - I don’t know what you mean by this. The hamburger menu at the top is because there isn’t enough space for all those things, and when you click it, it expands down. What did you have in mind?
- The text when you write a post is the same size as the display text. What did you mean by this? Can you screenshot?
- I could probably add a more / ellipsis for the extra stuff.
- Preview is 100% necessary for markdown previewing.
3 images :
- new top menu
- on smartphone, chrome, text size of post when displayed
- text size when I write post : tiny
Whats wrong with the navbar? That isn’t enough space to show all the items, which is why the hamburger menu is there.
There’s something going on with your chrome text sizing, that body text isn’t right. I’m on firefox mobile, and tested on another mobile browser, and the form text size is exactly the same as the comment or post body text.
- For the nav bar, you can replace text with button : home, search, inbox buttons are well-known.
- I use chrome, as lot of people. Don’t know what is wrong…
I have no idea what “replace text with button” means. There isn’t enough room in that navbar, so on thinner screens, it smartly uses a hamburger menu.
I don’t know what’s wrong with your chrome either.
- navbar text is not a big deal, I will do with it
- more annoying : for text size in chrome. you should try if someone you know can do the test with chrome.
- Signal, Matrix, discord, all use
Annoying menu when you write ‘:’ on a post.
I agree with this. And if you press enter (as in “the thing I’m talking about is ass follows:” whee the thing is on the next line) it auto-inserts the first emoji. I feel like the emoji picker should be a clickable button instead.
Replace ‘preview’ with just ‘post’ . Preview is useless Thank you
Preview is for making sure your markdown is correctly formatted. I like it for writing complicated posts with a lot of formatting.
I didn’t know you can use markdown. Whether markdown is useless in Lemmy could be another post.
Markdown is perfect for short writing (posts/comments). It has easy to learn syntax, all the while enabling you to do somewhat complicated formatting, and it’s human-readable, unlike something like LateX.
It’s 100% not useless. You can do a lot of complex formatting with it, which is desirable for a forum where formal discussion is expected.
