Hey everyone, inaugural post for feedback friday.

This is a place for the lemmy devs, and site admins here to

  • Give updates / show you what we’ve been working on.
  • For anyone to suggest improvements, better moderation practices, and how we can improve both lemmy and this site in general.

Also its very helpful to me if you post feature requests / bugs on the github issue tracker. They’ll probably get lost here otherwise.

  • snackwifi
    3·
    4 years ago

    I really wish titles for external links went to the external link and not the comment section, breaks my expectation of what is going to happen and then I need to click again to view the content

    • xvf
      2·
      4 years ago

      I personally prefer it goes to the “comment” (post) section rather than the external link.

      • Easier to click and tap to access the comment section vs clicking/tapping the small comment icon.
      • Functional consistency. When you click a text post it will send you to the “comment” (post) section, the same way for links.

      P.S. Reddit mobile webpage currently sends you to the “comment” (post) section and not to the external link.

      • snackwifi
        1·
        4 years ago

        Easier to click and tap to access the comment section vs clicking/tapping the small comment icon.

        This is a pretty strange point to make, of course it’s easier, it’s the biggest part of the post

        Functional consistency. When you click a text post it will send you to the “comment” (post) section, the same way for links.

        I’m not sure why one would expect functional consistency when they’re different kind of posts. Most all links go to the content the link is about, when it’s a text post the text is the content. This is just how links work.

        Reddit mobile webpage currently sends you to the “comment”

        I hope Lemmy can aspire to be better than Reddit ;)

    • Leer10
      21·
      4 years ago

      Yeah as an ex-reddit user this really confused me. I realize this is extra work but could it be a config option?

    • DessalinesOPA
      1·
      4 years ago

      It used to be that way, but a lot of people asked me to change it to go to the comments.

      • snackwifi
        2·
        4 years ago

        Hahaha, well the only argument I can give for link > comments is that people should be reading the article before they comment, otherwise they’re just commenting on the title. Perhaps a setting?

        • DessalinesOPA
          1·
          4 years ago

          You can click the image, or the smaller domain on the right, both go to the link.

          • snackwifi
            11·
            4 years ago

            I know but it’s not relevant to my opinion of the UX with the title